Pune: A brick kiln owner suffered a bullet injury in stomach after three assailants, including a 17-year-old boy, fired three rounds at him from a country-made pistol in front of his office near Shatrunjay temple in Kondhwa around 12.30pm on Monday. Police said two bullets missed the "target", Dilip Balasaheb Gaikwad (48), a resident of Sainagar.
Akash Jagtap (21) and Tanmay Bhusari (21), both school dropouts and residents of Kakade Vasti in Kondhwa, have been arrested. The boy has been detained. The pistol used in the crime has been recovered.
Dilip was admitted to Bharati Hospital. His condition is "stable after emergency care". Bharati Hospital's medical director Dr Sanjay Lalwani told TOI, "The patient was admitted to the emergency medical care around 1.
30pm with a bleeding grade 3 kidney injury as the bullet was stuck in lumbar vertebrae pedicle. He was promptly stabilised." This is the third incident of firing in and around Pune city in the past three days, highlighting the rising concern of the proliferation of firearms.
Inspector (crime) Mansing Patil of the Kondhwa police said, "Witnesses confirmed that the teenager had fired at Dilip. CCTV cameras also captured the attack and the minor admitted to have fired at the victim. We will produce him before the Juvenile Justice Board on Tuesday.
" "We are working on certain leads before we can reach any definite conclusion about the motive," additional commissioner of police (east region) Manoj Patil said. Dilip deals in san.