Overview
- Crime-branch teams acting on a tip set up checks near Pachgaon Chowk toward Kasan late Thursday, where the suspect opened fire as he tried to flee on a motorcycle.
- Gurugram Police say five rounds were exchanged—three by the accused and two by officers—with one officer hit but protected by a bullet-proof jacket.
- The suspect, Ankit Kumar, 24, escaped Kannauj jail in January, has six prior cases in Uttar Pradesh, and was the subject of a police reward for his capture.
- Investigators recovered a pistol, a magazine, five empty cartridges, one live cartridge, and a motorcycle, and registered an FIR for attempt to murder and under the Arms Act at Manesar police station.
- Kumar had been hiding in a rented room in Gurugram’s Khoh village and is being treated at Civil Hospital Sector 10A before questioning by inter-state authorities.