Bike-borne men shoot at scribe, kill his dog

A whistle-blower who has conducted many sting operations on policemen in the capital was shot at outside his house in south-west Delhi’s Rajapuri by motorcycle-borne assailants late on Friday.

Chetan Prakash Sharma works with a magazine and has also helped the Delhi government’s Anti Corruption Branch in identifying many corrupt policemen through his sting operations.
Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal also visited him on Saturday morning and assured him of co-operation from the government’s side.

The attack on Chetan took place around 11 pm when he was walking his dog in front of his house.

While Chetan was hit on his hand, his German Shepherd who jumped on the attackers when they were firing sustained around three bullets and died on the spot.

A call was made to the police control room after which Chetan was taken to Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital for treatment.

“I was walking my dog after dinner when I noticed two men on a motorcycle coming towards me. I stood aside, so that my dog doesn’t jump on the motorcycle, but the motorcyclists came close and the pillion rider started firing at me,” Chetan told Deccan Herald.

“Just when the firing started, my dog jumped on the motorcyclists. I sustained a bullet on my hand, while my dog died on the spot,” he added.

A case under Indian Penal Code and Arms Act has been registered with Dabri police station.
In his statement to police, Chetan has named a few people whom he suspects could be behind the attack.

“Chetan has given us names of some people and we are investigating the names of these people. We are also taking help from the footage of a CCTV camera installed near the spot,” said a police officer.

According to Chetan, some local political volunteers and the councillor of Madhu Vihar area had been wrongly using his name by extorting money from policemen in the name
of sting operations.