Man shot at in Delhi’s CP for resisting snatching bid
50-year-old man was shot at in the back in central Delhi’s Connaught Place area Wednesday morning when he resisted two masked men from snatching his bag, police said.
Tasveer Singh, a 50-year-old resident of Rohini, was attacked in A Block of the shopping district at around 10.15am. Singh works at a money exchange bureau in Connaught Place (CP).
Madhur Verma, deputy commissioner of police (New Delhi), said Singh’s son is in jail and investigators are probing any possible links. There was no money in the bag and Singh’s injury was not serious, he said.
Verma said CCTV footage of the crime has been accessed and angles of robbery and enmity are being probed.
A parking attendant, who did not wish to be named, saw Singh in the CP at around 10am.
“I saw him walking towards his office. He had a backpack on. Two young men who had covered their faces with handkerchieves
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were sitting under a tree. I think they tried to snatch his bag as there was a scuffle and he started shouting. The next thing I heard was the sound of a gunshot, and when I looked the two men were running away,” he said.
There were few people around as shops open at 11am.
Delhi Police records show that cases of snatching have increased by 413% in the last five years. Earlier this month, snatchers in west Delhi’s Uttam Nagar tore the ear lobes of two women to pull out their earrings in separate cases.
On December 29, 2016, a 39-year-old woman from Darjeeling was injured and admitted to the ICU of a hospital for more than 15 days after she fell from an auto-rickshaw while trying to fend off snatchers at Lajpat Nagar.