The residents’ welfare association members at Indirapuram here had a narrow escape when a miscreant opened fire at an office-bearer on Sunday morning. Though the shooter, who hails from Jawali in Loni, managed to escape, one of his accomplices was caught by the locals.
The RWA members have lodged a complaint with the Indirapuram police. “We were having an RWA meeting at Central Park in Nyay Khand-II around 9.30 a.m. Some men in two cars reached the spot. One of them took out a pistol and opened fire at me with the intention to kill. Somehow I managed to escape,” reads the complaint lodged by one Rajender Pathak .
The miscreants opened fire in the air to trigger panic among the locals and rushed towards Makanpur village. “The person, who had opened fire managed to flee, but the locals nabbed one of his accomplices,” the report adds.
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The locals handed over the man to the police. The police have also seized the vehicles in which the miscreants reached the spot.