No arrest in Rewari hospital shooting yet, doctors protest

  • | Saturday | 20th October, 2018

Police suspect that the case is an extortion bid by assailants working with the Kaushal gang. They said that the assailants left behind a note with "Thailand" written on it in Hindi and a Thailand contact number. Next day, they sent us a paper slip with a 12-digit contact number, possibly a Kyrgyzstan number. No one was injured in the incident.Without divulging details about the investigation, deputy superintendent of police Satpal Singh said that police were working on the case. He said, "They entered the pharmacy at 7.20pm and asked people, who were purchasing medicines, to get down on their knees.

GURUGRAM: Members of Indian Medical Association (IMA) have started wearing black bands on their arms during work to protest police failure to make any arrests after two assailants opened fired inside the medical store of Pushpanjali hospital in Rewari on October 16.According to police, the goons did not target anyone but broke a glass window before driving away in a car. No one was injured in the incident.Without divulging details about the investigation, deputy superintendent of police Satpal Singh said that police were working on the case. However, police sources said that there were analogies between this case and the firing at Om Sweets in Gurgaon on the same day, adding that they could not confirm whether the two cases were linked till the investigations had been completed.Three armed goons opened fire inside a popular sweet shop in the Sector 46 market on Tuesday but later fled without taking anything. Police suspect that the case is an extortion bid by assailants working with the Kaushal gang. They said that the assailants left behind a note with "Thailand" written on it in Hindi and a Thailand contact number. Gangster Kaushal is currently hiding in Thailand and earlier tried to extort money from a city businessman through his aides.Hospital owner SP Yadav, who has a hospital with the same name in Gurgaon, has also spotted the similarities, including this that the assailants were not interested in harming anyone but wanted to create terror and panic. He said, "They entered the pharmacy at 7.20pm and asked people, who were purchasing medicines, to get down on their knees. Then they fired at a glass window around seven to eight times before fleeing in a car being driven by an accomplice. Next day, they sent us a paper slip with a 12-digit contact number, possibly a Kyrgyzstan number. When we dialed the number, it did not work."

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