Two days after a cop was shot dead by three miscreants in Outer Delhi’s Shahbad Dairy area, a constable was injured in a gunfight with a group of criminals in Outer Delhi’s Rohini Sector-24 area on Sunday around 9.15 am. Police managed to nab five criminals, including the two injured, said police, adding several rounds were fired from both sides.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (Outer) Vikramjeet Singh said, “There was an encounter between a police team and a group of criminals in Rohini Sector 24 in which constable Pradip sustained bullet injury in the thigh while two criminals Sudhir and Vijay too were injured.”
The injured are undergoing treatment at Sanjay Gandhi Hospital here.
According to police, the Sultanpuri SHO received a tip-off that four to five men in white Swift car and black Pulsar were planning to rob a property dealer in Rohini area.
Acting on the tip-off, two teams, each consisting of 11 policemen, were deployed in Rohini Sector 24 area. As the police teams intercepted them, driver of the car Sudhir tried to dodge the policemen and exchange of firing ensued.
A bullet hit constable Pradeep’s thigh while a bullet fired by policemen grazed Sudhir’s neck and tore the cheek of his accomplice Vijay, said the officer.
Three other policemen also received minor injuries in apprehending the gang members who abortively tried to escape.
Police recovered two pistols and live rounds from the gang members who were wanted in several cases, including bank and van robberies.
The other accused have been identified as Farman, Sanjay and Rahul. They confessed that they were planning to rob one Mahender, a resident of Rohini Sector-24.
A case has been registered at Begumpur police station.
This was second shootout incident reported in Outer Delhi within one week. On Friday night, a Delhi Police constable was shot dead by miscreants while he was chasing them after they had snatched a bag from a woman in Shahabad area. Constable Anand, who was posted at sector five police chowki in Bawana, spotted the snatchers near Samosa Chowk in the area and chased them following which they fired at him, police said.