A man driving a car was injured while his friend seated on the front passenger seat escaped unhurt after two bike-borne masked assailants fired a bullet at them on a street at Chittaranjan Park in south Delhi on Thursday night. The car driver was hit by a bullet in his finger after it pierced through the windowpane of his vehicle.
The incident took place around 8 pm Thursday when Sachin Gupta and Waseem Ahmad were in a car in CR Park's C Block, they said. A police team that rushed to the spot discovered that a single-round of shots were fired at Sachin from the driver's side of the vehicle.
According to the police, Gupta was driving the car and was talking on the phone. All of a sudden, a single round was fired from the driver side. The bullet pierced through the driver side window and scraped Gupta's finger. Ahmad who was seated on the front passenger seat was unhurt, police said.
Preliminary investigation revealed that the shot was fired by one of the two people following Gupta on a bike. They had their faces hidden behind a muffler, a police officer said.