Attacks on affluent people, particularly the businessmen and medical professionals, in Jamshedpur have considerably been increased. Unknown assailants last week shot at Ashish Roy, a paediatrician at his residence in Park Enclave near Jubilee Park in Bistupur in the steel city.
The doctor belonged to Tata Main Hospital (TMH) operated with four bullet injuries in his left chest, abdomen and back in the TMH.
Sources said that Roy was in the lawn of his house when two motorcycle-borne assailants posing his patients approached the doctor and one of them went close to the doctor, took out firearms and sprayed bullets on him before escaping from the spot.
It may be mentioned that this was the third attack on doctors by criminals in the steel city in the last two months. Earlier, Pramod Kumar Mishra, also a TMH physician, survived the asailants’ bullets. Prabhat Kumar, the head of TMH’s casualty ward, shot at point blank and died on the spot.
During last fortnight, criminals had killed jeweler Tushar Bagadia and businessman Inderpal Singh.
The bodies of the traders in Jamshedpur and Ranchi protested against the attacks on the innocent people. They met the state’s director general of police and demanded arrest of the assailants immediately.
