Two days after a 17-year-old woman was shot whereas returning residence from the library in Faridabad, the prime suspect, who had been stalking her for a number of months, was arrested in Gurugram’s Sohna, stated Faridabad police on Wednesday.
Police recognized the suspect as Jitendra, alias Jatin Mangla, 30, who labored within the accounts part of a gaggle of establishments at Jakhopur in Faridabad. He was apprehended by the crime department from his native village of Saramathla on Wednesday.
The sufferer is a Class 12 scholar at a personal faculty in Faridabad. Police stated the accused additionally used to go to the identical library for his research a few 12 months in the past, the place he first met the woman.
The incident passed off on a residential highway in Ballabgarh’s Shyam Colony, round 5.20 pm on Monday, when the sufferer was returning residence to Bhagat Singh Colony after visiting the library.
The sufferer, together with two buddies, had walked simply 200m when he fired at her. Nevertheless, the country-made pistol misfired, giving her just a few seconds to maneuver. The suspect then pulled the set off for the second time when the pistol fired inflicting bullet harm in her left shoulder and forearm and splinter accidents on her face. The woman is presently present process therapy at a hospital the place docs have carried out surgical procedures for the accidents.
Yashpal Yadav, public relations officer of Faridabad police, stated that the suspect had been constantly stalking and harassing the minor woman over the previous few months.
“He was placing strain on her for friendship although the woman had outrightly refused to entertain him and refused to speak to him on a number of events. She had even blocked his contact quantity,” he stated.
“He had tried to strike up a dialog with the woman whereas she was going to the library just a few days earlier than the incident. This time, she had confided in her household and her dad and mom had contacted the suspect’s mom on Saturday who had assured that his son wouldn’t harass her additional with request to not contact police,” he stated.
“Nevertheless, on Monday, he lastly shot her from an in depth vary with the motive to homicide her however she managed to outlive,” Yadav stated.
Police officers stated that the suspect will probably be produced earlier than a Faridabad courtroom on Thursday and brought into police remand for interrogation to determine his precise motive and from whom and the place he had bought the country-made pistol used for capturing the woman.
In the meantime, the Haryana state ladies’s fee has additionally taken cognisance of the incident and sought a report from the Faridabad police on the motion taken until within the case and on the problem of safety and help supplied to the sufferer.
