Farzana Khatun(45), wife of NIA Deputy Superintendent of police Mohammad Tanzil Ahmad, who was shot dead in Bijnor, Uttar Pradesh, is critically injured with one bullet wound in her stomach. She has been admitted in Fortis Hospital, Noida sector-62 where her condition is said to be critical.
She was shot four times by the assailants who had pumped 21 bullets at her husband when they were returning after attending a marriage at Bijnore on Sunday post midnight.
Fortis Management said she was brought at hospital from Moradabad around 7 am on Sunday. “The doctors have conducted her operation. She has been shifted in Intensive Care Unit where her condition is still critical. Doctors are observing her regularly,” Fortis management said.
Tanzil and his wife and were immediately rushed to the hospital in Moradabad district early morning on Sunday. The doctor had declared Tanzil brought dead but his wife was immediately rushed to a hospital in Noida.
Bijnor police said the incident took place in wee hours on Sunday when Tanzil Ahmed (45) along with his wife and two children was travelling in his car from Bijnor.
“He along with his wife and two children was returning from the wedding of his niece when unidentified bike-borne persons stopped his car and opened fire at him. Tanzil was driving the car while his wife was sitting on the front seat and two children - 14-year-old daughter and a 12-year-old son were in the back seat,” said Inspector General, law and Order (UP), Bhagwan Swarup. An assistant commandant with Border Security Force (BSF), Tanzil, was on deputation with the NIA.