India, April 8 -- Days after a 35-year-old man was shot at outside a Dhaba on the Delhi-Meerut Road in Modinagar on April 2, police have arrested two suspects allegedly involved in the murder attempt, officials said on Tuesday.

The suspects were apprehended on Monday night during a crackdown at Bhojpur Road in Modinagar, and were identified as a 50-year-old Bhojpur resident, the prime suspect; and his accomplice as a 35-year-old resident of Karkardooma, Delhi.

"We received information through informers about the two men and their suspected role behind the April 2 incident. As they were in a car, police intercepted it on the Bhojpur Road. The suspects opened fire at the police. But during the police's retaliatory fire, the 50-year-old su...