KUMUD JENAMANI
Jamshedpur, May 13: Two masked men launched a gun-shot attack at a cloth shop in Kandra market in the adjoining Seraikela-Kharsawan district, about 20 kms away from here on Friday night.
The criminals had fired as many as three shots, causing one of them to hit a customer.
Identified as Jagannath Mondal, the customer sustained bullet injury on his right leg, leading the local residents to rush him to Tata Main Hospital.
Significantly, owner of the cloth shop, Sweta Stores, had a week ago received a call in which the caller had demanded Rs 20 lakhs as ‘rangdari,’ suggesting that the gun-shot attack was made in sequel to the extortion call.
The caller was reportedly a fugitive who had fled the Chaibasa divisional jail recently.
Moreover, though the shop owner, Durga Mondal had lodged a complaint with the Kandra police in connection to the extinction call, the police did not take it seriously.
Soon after the firing incident, a police party led by Kandra thana OC, Pascal Toppo had reached the spot. Thereafter sub-divisional police officer, Seraikela, Harvinder Singh had also reached the spot and inspected the crime scene.
The police said they are trying to identify the criminals by taking CCTV footage of the crime scene, but as of now no one has been identified.
As the firing incident took place following an extortion call, the shop owners in the Kandra marketplace have become wary and feeling insecure.
