A 45-year-old man was killed and four other men, including his son, were injured in northeast Delhi’s Bhajanpura area on Tuesday morning when unidentified men in a car opened fire at them.
A 45-year-old man was killed and four other men, including his son, were injured in northeast Delhi’s Bhajanpura area on Tuesday morning when unidentified men in a car opened fire at them.
According to a senior police officer, the incident occurred around 8.15 am when four men in a Maruti Swift car waylaid the father and son, who were on a motorcycle.
The man, Kailash Gupta, a property dealer, succumbed to his injuries and his son, Rajan Gupta, in his 20s, was critically injured and was admitted to the Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital.
The Guptas live in Harsh Bazar close to the spot where they were attacked. Kailash and his son had gone to a nearby park for their morning walk. After finishing their regular exercise, they stopped at a juice shop before heading home.
“Right then, four unidentified men in a white Maruti Swift car slowed down in front of them and two of them held out guns and started shooting at Kailash and his son,” said an official privy to the investigation.
“The assailants waited till they saw Kailash collapse on the ground and then started their car and were speeding away as Rajan started screaming in pain. When they could not shoot Rajan anymore, they started shooting indiscriminately all around in order to create panic,” said the officer.
As the accused were on a shooting spree, one bullet hit the leg of a rickshaw driver, identified as Ramlaxman (50), who was sitting at a tea shop. Not only this, the accused went on shooting at whoever they saw. Another passerby, identified as Banwari (40), also got shot in his left thigh and fell down.
