Accused shot at while trying to escape from Kalaburagi cops

Kalaburagi: Kalaburagi police fired at history-sheeter, injuring him, when he tried to escape after attacking them at Kesaratagi village outskirts of Kalaburagi city in the early hours of Saturday.
Station Bazar police were investigating an attempt-to-murder case, in which the accused, rowdy-sheeter Mirja Mohammad Abdul Baig alias Fayeem Mirja, was arrested on Friday. The shooting happened the next morning, when the police were taking the accused to the place where he had hid the lethal weapons for committing the crime.
When the police reached an open place at Kesaratagi, the accused allegedly attacked the police with lethal weapons and tried escape. In self-defence, police fired at Baig’s leg after which he fell on the ground. He sustained injuries on his right leg, below the knee. He has been admitted to the government hospital.
Station Bazar police inspector L H Goundi and constables Ambadas and Rafique were also injured, and were treated at a private hospital.
Baig, a resident of Vidyanagar here, has been booked in murder, dacoity, attempt-to-murder and other cases in various police limits in Kalaburagi city. On June 29, he tried to kill a 22-year-old youth at Panchasheela Nagar here. Station Bazar police had arrested him on August 28 to investigate him in the latest case.