In a broad daylight incident, unidentified bike-borne miscreants fired at a 35-year old man near the Tagore Academy school at Sakchi on Friday.
The injured identified as Baldev Singh, a resident of Daiguttu under Mango police station had come to pick his 11-year old son Sahil Singh and was speaking to other parents when four youths on two bikes with their faces covered fired at him and fled the spot as the other parents started shouting.
The parents took the bleeding Baldev Singh on an auto-rickshaw to the Tata Main Hospital. His condition is stated to be critical at this stage. Jamshedpur city SP, Prashant Anand, who rushed to t0he hospital said it was the result of an old enmity.
"We are investigating the incident. The injured youth is out of danger and according to doctors two bullets are still inside the body. The doctors have said he is out of danger,” said the police.
The victim was recently out on bail from Ghagidih jail and was accused in the case of killing of a youth in his neighbourhood and it appears to be a sequel to the old enmity between the two groups," said Prashant Anand.A parent present there said,
" We were shocked as the school children who came out in large number would have been injured.
We are relieved that the incident took place few minutes before. It shows a total collapse of law and order in the city”.
According to sources, victim's son is also a fifth grader in the school.