Two bike-borne assailants on Thursday shot at a business head of a private company at Noida’s sector 15-A, said police. The injured Rakesh Awasthi, 40, who was travelling in his SUV also hit the bikers. One of them fell down and was beaten-up by public while the second attacker managed to flee, said eyewitnesses.
According to police, Awasthi received a bullet injury in his stomach. He has been admitted in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of Kailash Hospital, Noida, and is out of danger.
Meanwhile, police have also seized a country-made pistol and the Apache bike from the spot of the incident.
The incident took place at 12:30 pm when he was on his way to office. Awasthi works as business head at a company namely Ozone Overseas Indian in Delhi. He is also a senior architect engineer.
The attackers were following him from Greater Noida as they were aware about the cash he was carrying. When Awasthi stopped his car at sector-15 A red signal, robbers asked him to open his car’s window and tried to snatch the bag, containing cash and laptop. When Awasthi raised an alarm about the loot, the assailants shot at him. Despite having gunshot wound, the victim hit the robber’s bike. Kiran Sivakumar, Senior Superintendent of police, Gautam Budh Nagar said.
“We have taken the accused to police custody and interrogations are on. Another robber will be arrested soon,” SSP added.
Noida has been witnessing number of crime incidents in the past few days. A Similar incident took place on March 7 with deceased Mohit Chadda (30), a mobile phone businessman of Ghaziabad who was shot dead by bikers at Sector-44 in a loot attempt.