Doctor shot at in Jalandhar: One arrested, two at large
Jalandhar, Aug. 26 -- Six days after three motorcycle-borne men shot at a doctor on August 19, hitting him on the leg, the Jalandhar commissionerate police have arrested one of the accused.
Commissioner of police Dhanpreet Kaur Randhawa said police identified three accused in the incident and one of the accused, Satya Narayan of Jalandhar, had been nabbed.
"The two main accused will be arrested soon as police have received key leads of their whereabouts. The arrested accused was accompanying them and returned to his house after committing the crime," Randhawa said. On August 19, Rahul Sood, a nephrologist, sustained a bullet injury on the leg after unidentified assailants, in a bid to abduct him, opened fire at him in Jalandhar's Urban Estate area. The entire incident was captured on a CCTV camera, in which three men could be seen forcing the doctor to get inside his car at gunpoint. When he resisted, one of them opened fire at him, the footage showed.
The CP added that the arrested accused had been taken into police remand for seven days. Further investigation is underway to uncover the motive behind the crime....
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