Delhi Man Accidentally Shoots Himself, Makes Up Story To Mislead Cops

New Delhi:

A 30-year-old civil defence volunteer unintentionally shot himself after which cooked up a narrative of being shot allegedly by two bike-borne males in south Delhi’s Neb Sarai space to mislead investigators, police mentioned on Thursday.

Sujeet Kumar, who additionally works as a driver, lives together with his spouse and a 10-year-old son at a rented home in Indira Enclave of Neb Sarai space, they mentioned.

Kumar is presently present process therapy on the AIIMS Trauma Centre right here and slated to be out of hazard, he mentioned.

On Wednesday, he unintentionally shot himself after which made a PCR name, informing police that he was shot within the left knee by two males on a motorbike close to his home, police mentioned.

During enquiry, he instructed the police that he was smoking a cigarette on the nook of a park close to his home when two males driving a motorbike got here there. They had an argument over a petty concern following which they fired at him and fled the spot, a senior police officer mentioned.

A case was registered below related sections of the IPC and Arms Act.

During the interrogation that adopted, it was discovered that Kumar didn’t reply to questions correctly and saved diverting the investigators, police mentioned.

However, a witness instructed the police that neither did he discover any firing nor hear any sound, the officer mentioned, including that the police workforce additionally didn’t discover any blood on the spot.

The police discovered that Kumar’s spouse Anshu had locked her room and left the home with out informing anybody. When she was contacted, she didn’t be a part of the enquiry nor attend to cellphone calls from the police, he mentioned.

A CCTV footage of the realm confirmed the one bike coming into the realm on the time of incident had not been recognized by Kumar, he added.

He was then re-examined at size throughout which he confessed that he had a struggle with the boys dwelling within the neighbourhood 15 days again and recognized them as Sumit, Arjun and Vicky. So all three males had been examined, mentioned Atul Kumar Thakur, Deputy Commissioner of Police (South).

“During interrogation, the boys disclosed that on Wednesday morning, Kumar was carrying a pistol and had shown it to them. Kumar then took it inside his room and after a few minutes he and his wife came out of the room and Kumar had a bullet injury.

“They provided to assist him however he denied and as an alternative made a name to the police. They additionally noticed his spouse taking the pistol together with her and leaving her room locked,” he said.

After the incident, Kumar’s wife went missing but she was traced and found at a distant relative’s home nearby in the same colony, police said.

“When questioned, she disclosed that her husband had unintentionally shot himself. He had acquired the pistol from a good friend named Amit Kundu. After the incident, she left her room and went to her relative’s place with the pistol and conceal it there. She confessed that she did all this to save lots of her husband,” Thakur mentioned.

The pistol together with three dwell cartridges was recovered, police mentioned.

Suitable motion will even be taken in opposition to Kumar, who’s presently hospitalised and was beforehand concerned in three circumstances, together with that of homicide and Arms Act in 2016 in Ghaziabad district, police mentioned.

Kumar had additionally been in judicial custody in Dasna Jail from September, 2016 to March, 2019, they added.