Bareilly Surgeon shot, 3 arrested
Bareilly: Three persons have been arrested in an incident associated with shooting a surgeon, who is also the director of a private medical college in Bareilly over an alleged land dispute case.
The doctor was shot at after his SUV was intercepted by four men on bikes at a railway crossing in the Baradari area of the city on Saturday night.
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The assailants said that they were trying to threaten the doctor to compromise in a land dispute case. The bullet passed through his jaws. He has been hospitalized and his condition is stated to be stable.
SSP Rohit Singh told reporters: "Dr. had purchased land from the accused near his medical college in 2017. Later, he found that he had sold the same plot to someone else. The latter was booked for cheating at that time and sent to jail. In 2019, Anees allegedly attempted to extort money from Agarwal and another FIR was lodged against him. Then, the accused hired three men to threaten the doctor."
The medical dialogues team had earlier reported a similar incident involving the arrest of two persons for shooting a junior resident doctor of a government hospital. In the incident, unidentified assailants had shot the doctor near the hospital. The assailants had already gained entry into the victim's car, threatened the doctor with a pistol after he entered the vehicle. The victim was then pushed out of his car and the accused shot at him. One of the bullets had hit him on his face, the police said. The police had earlier said while fleeing with the vehicle, the accused had rammed the car into the hospital gates that had punctured the tires. The vehicle had then crashed outside the facility.
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