India, April 4 -- A 35-year-old man in his SUV was shot five times by an unidentified man outside a dhaba on the Delhi Meerut Road Thursday night, and in his zeal to survive, he drove alone about 18kms, in an injured condition, to a hospital in Ghaziabad to save himself, a police officer said on Friday.

Police identified the injured man as Rahul Chaudhary, a resident of Raj Nagar Extension and a property dealer.

The officer said Chaudhary had come to a dhaba around to 8.30pm to collect Rs.75,000 from a group of people in Modinagar. "After collecting the money, Chaudhary returned to his car and turned on the ignition when an unidentified man fired several shots at him and fled. Sustaining the gunshots, Chaudhary sped away in his SUV, dri...