A jeweller was shot at on Friday morning in broad day light as soon as he entered his workshop at Old HB Road under lower Bazar Police Station in Ranchi. The Jeweller, Manoj Kumar Jaiswal 45, received severe injuries on his head and was rushed immediately to the nearby Santevita Hospital in Ranchi.
“Jaiswal was attacked by two unidentified criminals and received two bullet injuries on his head as soon as he entered his workshop at Kuldevi Market in Old HB Road,” said City DSP Shambhu Kumar Singh. The jeweller was about to shift his workshop to Upper Bazar in a few days as he was already having a shop over there, he added.
“No one was there except him in the workshop when the two persons entered the workshop and shot on his head,” said the DSP. People saw two persons running away from the spot giving an impression that two persons were involved in the shootout, he said.
“One pistol and a dagger have also been recovered from the spot,” he said. The reasons shootout was not yet clear as the victim was still not in a condition to record his statement, added the DSP.
“Things will be clear only after the businessman regains his consciousness and records his statement,” he added.