There was a dramatic late-night encounter on Saturday in Kamal Vihar of Jalandhar when a young man was shot at by another young man in the locality near the railway tracks. The entire episode was captured on CCTV, and the same is now going viral while also assisting the police probe.
As per the police, the victim, Manish Kumar, son of Vijay Kumar, Mohalla Narayan Singh, Kamal Vihar, Bashir Pura, was attacked when he was passing close to the railway line. The attacker, who was a member of a group of young men, shot Manish in the abdomen and left after escaping with his friends.
The incident came to light after the CCTV video went viral, where a group of four or five youths stood in a lane across the track. One of them is suspected by the police to be the culprit. Manish was taken to the civil hospital in critical condition soon after he was attacked.
Manish, who is in the hospital and supposedly a cable operator by occupation, remains hospitalized as police initiate an all-out manhunt for the suspects, who are currently on the loose. The authorities are scrutinizing all the available CCTV footage of the region to identify and apprehend the culprits.
Rama Mandi SHO Manjinder Singh Bassi also claimed that the Kamal Vihar locality falls under his station's jurisdiction. He said that upon hearing about the shootout, he and his team rushed to the location at once and began the investigation. But since the case happened on railway property, the Government Railway Police (GRP) have gone ahead and filed an FIR.
The motive for the shooting remains unknown, and the police are calling on individuals who have information to report it while investigations continue