Pooja was shot in the head by three men at Gurugram while returning from a restaurant where she had dinner with her fiancé on the night of November 3 and passed away in Medanta on Thursday. The attack has left Gurugram and its corporate universe shaken.
Street crime has gotten deadlier in NCR, on both sides of Delhi. The attack on Pooja, an employee of a computer specialist, is the second time in two months that the assailants attack late at night, ambush a moving car and fatally injure the occupant: University student Amity Akshay Kalra was mugged by car thieves in Noida on September 2 and died in hospital.
Technical assassination: the police explore every angle
However, the attack on Pooja may not be the result of an attempted carjacking, police insist, because there was no attempt to steal the car. It may be pure coincidence at this point, but Kalra was driving a Creta and so was Pooja. It belonged to her fiancé Sagar Manchanda, who is the only witness to the attack.
Doctors who treated Pooja said she had a severe brain injury. “All possible outcomes and complications were explained to family members in detail, with little chance of survival. On November 5, at around 2:00 p.m., the patient went into cardiac arrest, so she began and continued with immediate cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Despite this, the patient could not be resuscitated and was pronounced dead at 2:33 p.m. He died of a severe brain injury due to a gunshot wound to the head, ”said a doctor.
The attackers fired two shots at Sagar and Pooja with domestically made pistols after stopping them at around 11.15pm. M. On a dimly lit highway in Sector 65 that branches off the main southern ring road and heads towards M3M Skycity, where Sagar has reserved a flat. They asked the duo to roll down the windows. When they refused, one of the men shot Sagar through the windshield. The bullet went through the glass but missed Sagar. The other shot Pooja, who was driving, through the right window. The bullet hit her in the head. The man fled after that and Sagar took Pooja to the hospital.
ACP (branch of crime) Preetpal Sangwan told TOI that the police were still not sure of the motive for the attack. “There could be many possibilities, including theft,” Singh said. Dhamtari SP BP Rajbhanu said that local police had learned of Pooja’s murder from media reports and had not been informed by the Gurugram police.
Gurugram police, immediately after the shooting, said they were also investigating the possibility of personal enmity as a motive for the attack, but so far they have not received a complaint from Pooja’s family. In a one-page statement, Pooja’s mother said she had obtained permission to visit Sagar’s home in Sector 40, where she lives with her mother. “In the evening, they went out for dinner and then for a walk when this incident occurred. Sagar called us late at night to inform us about the incident, ”she said in her statement, adding that she was not suspicious of anyone and hoped the police would find out why she was killed.
Pooja was expected to return to Dhamtari in Chhattisgarh, where she had been working from home since offices closed due to the pandemic, this weekend and to visit Gurugram again on November 20 with her parents to meet with Sagar’s family, police sources said. The wedding had been postponed due to closure and was planned for December. His father, who runs an auto parts business in Dhamtari, and his brother had flown to Delhi on Wednesday.
Manchanda said in her complaint: “I took her to see a flat that she had brought in a residential society and we were returning when three masked men approached our car. When he saw them, he stopped the car and two of them got out and beckoned us to roll down the windows. When we refused, the masked man by his window pulled out a gun and shot me, but it didn’t hit me. ” When Pooja started to walk away, she was shot in the head, she added her statement.
After arriving in Delhi, Pooja was staying with a relative in the national capital. He visited his office in Gurugram Sector 48 the same morning, November 3, to replace his laptop, which had developed a technical problem. Pooja had been at Gurugram for the past three years, working with the IT specialist.
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