Four policemen were injured, one of them critically, when they were attacked by around a dozen goons during picket checking in Adarsh Nagar area in North-West Delhi late on Sunday night. The assailants also fired five shots on the policemen, but luckily, all of them misfired. Police have arrested four of the attackers, identified as Anil, Arvind, Sanjay, alias Sanju and Kamal while others managed to flee in their car.
“The attackers fled after snatching a service revolver from a policeman and even hit Head Constable Rajinder with their i10 car. Rajinder’s condition is said to be critical as he is in the ICU. His colleagues, constable Dinesh, Shishram and Amit were also injured in the blatant attack,” said a police official. The incident took place around 2 am when the policemen were checking vehicles at a picket when three youths arrived in the car. An argument ensued between them over checking after which the youths called up their friends who reached the spot on their motorcycles and then the group attacked the policeman.
They thrashed the policeman and even fired five shots on them, one from a pistol and four from a countrymade revolver, but all the shots were misfired.
Meanwhile a general patrolling police team reached the spot and managed to catch four of the assaulters. Police has recovered one pistol and a country-made revolver from them. A case under relevant Sections of Indian Penal Code (IPC) has been registered at Adarsh Nagar police station and several teams have been formed to nab the remaining attackers.