NEW DELHI: Delhi Police has solved a shooting case, uncovering that the injured man had allegedly fired at himself as part of a conspiracy to falsely implicate his lenders, an official said on Monday.
The police have arrested two men -- Prabhas Pandey (53), an auto-rickshaw driver, and his associate Ashish alias Chunnu (28) -- and recovered a country-made pistol along with a fired cartridge.
“Pandey had staged the incident to frame people who were demanding repayment of money and opposing his personal relationship,” Deputy Commissioner of Police (Northwest) Bhisham Singh said in a statement.
The officer said that the case came to light in the early hours of December 28 last year, when a PCR call was received at the Mukherjee Nagar police station around 2 am, reporting that a man had been shot on the Azadpur–Kingsway Camp stretch.
A police team rushed to the spot and found Pandey with a gunshot injury near his auto-rickshaw. He was immediately taken to BJRM Hospital and later referred to Safdarjung Hospital, where doctors operated on him and recovered a bullet from his body. After regaining consciousness, Pandey gave a statement claiming that three men -- identified as Dharam Singh, Sant Kumar and Tarun Mathur -- had allegedly demanded repayment of a loan with interest and on refusal, one of them fired at him before fleeing.
Based on his complaint, an FIR was registered and an investigation was launched.
Police arrested auto driver Pandey and his associate Ashish after uncovering a staged attack. Pandey shot himself to falsely implicate three men, linked to personal disputes and a loan, while Ashish helped dispose of the weapon.