A youth in a group of four friends opened fire outside a discotheque after bouncers did not allow them to smoke cigarettes in the club and stay beyond the closing time in Sector 8 in the wee hours of Monday, injuring three persons.
The accused hailing from Tarn Taran district in Punjab arrived around 11.30pm in a Maruti Zen car on Sunday. They parked the vehicle nearby, walked in, downed a few pegs of whisky and broke into noisy celebrations, police said. After a while, the bouncers asked them to leave around 2am, the time to shut the club. “But the accused refused to step out. They started creating ruckus as they wanted to light up cigarettes in the club,” said Rajesh, general manager of the discotheque. The bouncers evicted them. Angry and embarrassed, one of the accused walked up to their car, smashed its left windowpane, pulled out a pistol from the dashboard and started firing indiscriminately. While his target was the bouncers, two club-goers and a staff member ended up with injuries.
They were Akashdeep, who belonged to Ropar and was staying in Nayagaon, Shilpa Rai of New Delhi and Deep Kumar, the club employee. While the bullet pierced the right shoulder of Shilpa, Deep was shot in the arm. She was admitted to PGI.