Rajkot: Seven bootleggers attacked three persons under the suspicion that they were police informants. The bootleggers also opened fire at them in Nagadaka village of Sayala taluka in Surendranagar district on Wednesday evening.Police said the accused, identified as Dilip Jhebalia, Pratap Jhebalia, Jhilu Jhebalia, Santu Kathi, Ranjit Kathi, Kuleep Kathi and Shivku Kathi, arrived in a car and waylaid Ravu Dhandhal and Jayesh Khachar.Both Dhandhal and Khachar were going to have snacks in Bhadala village of Sayala taluka, when the accused waylaid them. Accusing them of tipping police off about the liquor cache that was recently seized, the accused attacked them with axes and bats.“When Dhandhal and Khachar, who had received injuries in the attack, ran off to a nearby field to save their lives, the accused allegedly fired two rounds from their firearms. The bullets, however, did not injure them,” said Sayala police station sub-inspector D D Chudasma.The accused did not stop at this. They set ablaze Dhandhal’s car and went to his house and ransacked it and broke a TV set. When Dhandhal’s maternal uncle Gabharu Khachar tried to intervene, they shot him in his arm.“We have booked the accused under various sections of the Indian Penal Code for attempt to murder, issuing threats and vandalism. The accused are yet to be nabbed,” added Chudasma.

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