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Policeman injured as terror suspect opens fire
Marri Ramu
— Photo: Satish.H
In deep pain: Rama Raju of Counter Intelligence wing, being wheeled into the Apollo Hospital in Hyderabad on Wednesday.
HYDERABAD: A terror suspect wanted in the Mecca Masjid blast case and his associates escaped after firing at three members of the police Counter Intelligence wing who tried to nab them near a bustling junction here on Wednesday.
A bullet pierced through the abdomen of head constable Guru Ram Raju, while his colleague, Mohammad Jaffar, suffered a fracture in the right hand in a scuffle when they tried to overpower the wanted suspect, Vikar Ahmed.
Raju was admitted to a corporate hospital where doctors operated on him.
The shootout at the crowded Indira Seva Sadan crossroads in the Santoshnagar area created panic for a brief while.
The presence of Vikar Ahmed, his associate Amjad, and two others, all of them reportedly possessing firearms, suggested that they could be plotting a major attack but their targets and plans could not be ascertained, police added.
Police had been trying to track the movements of Vikar Ahmed as he was among those who disappeared after the bomb blast at the Mecca Masjid on May 18, 2007. On a tip-off that Ahmed returned to the city a month ago, a special police team kept surveillance on him.
When cornered inside a public telephone booth, Vikar Ahmed offered resistance and his associate, believed to be Amjad, came running and fired at the policemen with a pistol. Vikar too fired at them with a 9 mm country-made pistol. Raju collapsed and his colleagues scurried for cover while Vikar and Amjad fled the scene with an accomplice waiting on a two-wheeler.
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