SATISH HANDA

People gathered outside the sweets shop, when police team arrived at the spot after the incident of two rounds of gun firing at the owner Kanwar Bhan of famous Sitaram Halwai on the Railway Road at Sampla in Rohtak district at early morning hours on Wednesday when he was opening the shutter of the shop attempted killing by five-six unidentified persons sitting in a black ‘Scorpio’ car suspected by members of Bhau and Aman gang as told by a couple of eye witnesses in the area. Fortunately, Kanwar Bhan had a narrow escape. The youths in the car also threw an extortion note slip tied with a stone towards the shop before fleeing with the message demanding  to arrange Rs 1 crore ransom from the shopkeeper otherwise he will be killed.

According to the owner of the shop, as soon as he opened the shutter, a Scorpio car came and he thought it must be a customer, but those sitting inside fired two shots at the shop and threw a stone with a slip threatening to kill shop owner in case rthe rarnsom amount not paid. After the incident, the vehicle left towards Jhajjar side. On the complaint, police team arrived at the spot led by DSP Rakesh Malik. Surprisingly, two years ago the owner of this shop had received a ransom demand threatened by the notorious Lalit Samchan gang. He said that police have been able to get a few clues as regards the youths involved in the incident through a CCTV camera installed in the area and shall try to arrest the accused soon. “I have demanded police protection,” said the shopkeeper. Inspector Sulender  SHO Police Station Sampla, told  media persons that a case under Arms Act and Sections 307, 387 and 506 of the IPC has been registered against unidentified persons on the complaint of the shop owner.