FIRED GURUGRAM EMPLOYEE SHOOTS AT HR MANAGER

GURURGAM: The head of human resources (HR) at an electronic automotive parts firm was shot at in Manesar on Thursday, allegedly by former trainee at the company who had been sacked for indiscipline, police said.

Dinesh Kumar Sharma, 49, who has been working at Mitsuba Sical India Private Limited -- part of the Japan-based Mitsuba Corporation -- for the last seven years, was in his car when two men on a motorcycle intercepted him half a kilometre from his office and shot at him.

Sharma, a resident of Gurugram’s Sector 43, is recovering in hospital with bullet injuries on his back below the neck.

Gurugram police commissioner Sandeep Khirwar said two suspects had been arrested. “One of them, Joginder Singh, was a trainee engineer with the company who was sacked last month. The other is his friend Daya Chand, who had called Sharma for a meeting on Wednesday asking for Singh to be reinstated.” According to Sharma’s brother, he left home at around 7.30am in his Toyota Etios Liva car. He was near his office on the Bilaspur-tauru road when the two men tried to stop him. Sharma tried to get away but the pillion rider took out a pistol and allegedly shot him. In his complaint to Bilaspur police, Sharma said that he suspected Singh. “He (Singh) had an argument with an outsider and they both assaulted each other on the company premises, after which he was terminated,” the victim’s brother Mahesh Kumar Sharma alleged.

During interrogation, both the accused confessed that they had carried out the attack. The company, Mitsuba, did not issue an official statement.