NEW DELHI: Following a brief exchange of fire, police on Tuesday arrested two auto-lifters in south Delhi’s Sewa Nagar around 7.30am.
The accused were both shot in the leg during the retaliatory firing by cops. The arrested men, brothers, have been identified as Junaid (24) and Iqbal (40), residents of Nooh in Haryana.
Two country-made pistols of 315 bore and a stolen motorcycle were seized from them, police said.
A police team was checking vehicles, when the accused tried to flee after seeing the cops.
Deputy commissioner of police (south) Atul Thakur said as cops chased them, the pillion rider opened fire. “Our men fired in self-defence in which both the criminals sustained injuries in their legs,” he said.
