A 21-year-old-youth was shot at by a gang of robbers when he tried to resist their attempt to rob jewellery from a woman near the Palam flyover in South-West Delhi on Thursday.
Police said that the incident took place around 6 am when Kalyaani (26), a resident of Mahavir Encalve, was on a morning walk.
“As soon as the woman reached near the Palam flyover, three bike borne assailants stopped her and started threatening her at a gun point. They asked her to hand over her jewellery to them,” a senior police officer said.
The victim, Sandeep, who saw this while travelling in a Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) bus stepped down and tried to foil the snatching bid. “The robbers opened fire at Sandeep and fled with a gold chain and some other jewellery. Sandeep Singh received a bullet injury in his back and was rushed to the Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital where his condition is stated to be out of danger,” the officer added.
In another incident where a constable was shot at on Wednesday evening in Delhi’s New Friend’s colony area, the South East district police has arrested a 28-year-old robber, Sonu alias Rahul from Badarpur area on late Wednesday.
“Sonu, who is involved in over 17 cases of robbery and dacoity in Delhi, was arrested from his hideouts in Delhi’s Badarpur area. He was sent to Tihar Jail in 2007 for attacking a constable with a knife. He has been sent three times to Tihar,” said Ajay Chaudhry, Additional Commissioner of Police (South-East).
The accused shot a Delhi police constable Bobby Yadav (28), posted at south Delhi’s New Friends Colony (NFC) police station, on Wednesday night near Delhi’s Khizrabad village when he was being chased by the constable.