Panic broke out in a residential society of Govindpuram area here when three persons, who after being chased by a police team have entered into a multi-storeyed building.
Arms were seized from the vehicle deserted by the three persons before they entered the residential society, senior superintendent of police Nitin Tiwari said.
The area has been cordoned off and a search operation has been launched to arrest them, he said.
SP city Shiv Shankar Yadav said the three persons were spotted in the Govindpuram and on being challenged they opened fire at the police party and ran inside a housing society in the area.
The society has been surrounded and efforts underway to arrest them at the earliest, he said. Yadav said the car has a sticker of the housing society. The flat belongs to a woman.
Published 19 March 2013, 21:02 IST