Central District police have arrested a person, who had allegedly fired at a property dealer in Patel Nagar after his car had brushed against him. The police officers with the help of CCTV footage went door to door in the area and managed to track down the accused.
During investigation, CCTV footage was obtained from a house near the place of incident. On the basis of the footage a massive verification drive was launched covering the area of Faridpuri and blocks of West Patel Nagar. During this exercise, a woman identified one of the three assailants who had rented a room in her house but had moved out on the next day after committing the crime.
The details of his identification documents were obtained and thereafter a massive hunt was launched to trace him. “The accused has been identified as Jammal. With the help of technical surveillance his location was traced in Sonipat, Haryana. The team camped there for two days and the accused was apprehended from his hideout in Raipur, Haryana. His interrogation led to the arrest of two other accused Shiv Kumar alias Tony and Jatin Khatri,” said Additional Commissioner of Police (Central) Alok Kumar. Tony who fired a shot was earlier involved in another case of robbery in Haryana.
The incident took place on August 21, 2014. A PCR call was received that a person named Vipin Rajput, a property dealer by profession has been shot at by unknown assailants. He sustained bullet injury in his stomach and was admitted in Bl Kapoor hospital. On Subsequent enquiry, it was revealed that the victim had an altercation with three persons near his office when his car touched them while he was reversing it.