29 May,2019 03:00 PM IST | | mid-day online correspondent
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New Delhi: A youth allegedly held a Bhojpuri actress at a hotel in Robertsganj in Uttar Pradesh's Sonbhadra district on Saturday. Police said that the youth even opened fire at a man who came to rescue the actress.
According to the police, the youth identified as Pankaj Yadav was stalking Bhojpuri actress Ritu Singh who was staying at the hotel. He allegedly broke into her room at the hotel with a pistol. The accused then held the actress hostage and threatened her to marry him.
Reportedly, a local youth named Ashok intervened to rescue the actress but the accused fired at him leaving him severely injured. He was immediately taken to a nearby hospital. Crew members of the Bhojpuri film unit from Mumbai were also staying at the same hotel for a film shoot.
After hearing the gunshot, hotel staffers and crew members rushed to the spot. Police was then informed and a team headed by the SP reached the spot immediately.
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SP Patil, who was tackling the situation was also injured. He asked the accused to surrender his pistol but the latter opened fire at the SP and a bullet passed by his ear.
Police then overpowered Yadav and arrested him. Patil said that the accused was stalking the actress for a long time now and was adamant to marry her.
In a sensational murder, a senior health official was on Friday shot dead at point-blank range at her office in Punjab's Kharar by a man who later pumped a bullet into himself, police said.
The official, Neha Shorie, was posted with the Drug and Food Chemical Laboratory in Kharar and dealt with licensing in Mohali and Ropar districts, they said. The accused, Balwinder Singh of Morinda, entered her office and fired three bullets from his licensed revolver at Shorie at around 11.40 am, a police official said. After firing bullets at the woman health officer, the accused tried to flee the spot on his motorcycle but was caught, the official said.
"The people nearby caught hold of him. After being held, he initially tried to threaten those who had caught hold of him by pointing his revolver towards them but when he found trapped, he fired at himself, the official added. Kharar DSP, who reached the spot, took the accused into custody. Singh is undergoing treatment at PGIMER at Chandigarh and is in a critical state, police said.
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