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Cops shoot at burglars, then donate blood to save one

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Published on April 28, 2017 with No Comments

A Delhi police team cut a suspected burglar down with five bullets in a shootout in Rohini on Wednesday, dashed the bleeding man to a hospital and donated blood to keep him alive after surgery.

Constable Ashok Kumar often donates blood to old people and road-accident victims, but never before to a suspect he had shot at.

“Shooting at the criminal was my duty. I am performing my humanitarian duty now,” he said, with bloodshot eyes betraying a long night patrol as he signed on a form for blood donation at Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Hospital. His kind-hearted gesture contrasts the bullets he and two colleagues dodged just before dawn. Residents of Ahinsa Vihar Apartment in Rohini Sector 9 spotted two men carrying backpacks trying to scale a boundary wall of the housing block around 4am. They called police and two policemen on bike patrol and another in a car reached the spot.

The cops tried to corner the two suspects — 24-yearold Nitin and associate Salman, who had their faces covered. But the alleged burglars climbed a wall and jumped on the road outside, only to come face to face with assistant sub-inspector Ramashray Singh, head constable Rajesh Kumar and constable Ashok.

The suspects, who were around 15 metres away, took out pistols and fired at the policemen.

“A bullet whizzed past my left ear and I pulled the trigger in self-defence. My colleague, ASI Ramashray, too began firing,” constable Ashok said.

Ashok and Ramashray fired nine rounds with their service revolvers, and five of them hit Nitin — in one of his legs, both arms and lower back. The one that caught his back did the maximum damage, and he slumped to the ground.

 

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