3 persons held after exchange of fire with police

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A tense concern unfolded successful westbound Delhi’s Nangloi successful the aboriginal hours of Saturday arsenic a constabulary brushwood took spot portion arresting 3 persons accused of opening occurrence astatine a patrolling squad 3 days ago.

The accused – identified arsenic Osaf Ali, Md. Kamran alias Shahrukh, and Firoz alias Sajid – were injured during the brushwood and subsequently taken to a adjacent infirmary for treatment, the constabulary said.

According to the police, a patrolling squad spotted the accused connected Wednesday portion they were attempting to rob a hardware store successful Nangloi. On seeing the police, they fled the scene. One of the accused past opened occurrence astatine the policemen who were chasing them. They managed to flight portion continuing to occurrence astatine the police.

3 pistols recovered

The forensic squad visited the spot. Three pistols were recovered from the accused, an authoritative said.

On Saturday, the Nangloi constabulary received accusation astir their whereabouts. “All night-patrolling units, exigency effect vehicles and different unit were alerted to look for the accused. The suspects were spotted adjacent Prem Nagar crossing astir 3.35 a.m. When asked to halt for verification, they attempted to flee, but their motorcycle slid forward. They past opened indiscriminate occurrence astatine the police,” Sachin Sharma, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Outer District), said.

“Sub-Inspector Yogender and Head Constable Vikas Kumar were deed by bullets but escaped wounded acknowledgment to their bulletproof jackets. We returned fire, aiming astatine the suspects’ legs and managed to apprehension them. The injured, including the accused and constabulary officials, were instantly shifted to SGM Hospital, Mangolpuri, wherever they are nether going treatment,” Mr. Sharma added.

Published - October 26, 2025 01:28 americium IST

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