Delhi shootout drama - a timeline
Following is the sequence of events, according to Delhi Police, of Friday's shootout in which two suspected terrorists were killed, two managed to escape and one was captured.
Following is the sequence of events, according to Delhi Police, of Friday's shootout in which two suspected terrorists were killed, two managed to escape and one was captured:
Around 10 am:
* A team of 20 people led by Assistant Commissioner of Police Sanjeev Yadav reaches Jamia Nagar. The team takes position on the buildings around apartment block L-18.
Between 11-11.45 am:
* Inspector Mohan Chand Sharma, who was not wearing a flak jacket, knocks on the front door of an apartment on the fourth floor of L-18 building.
* Sharma asks the inmates to come out for police verification. Occupants open fire from a .3 mm pistol.
* Three bullets hit Sharma; two pass through his body. Sharma falls down as the policemen take shelter.
* Head Constable Balwan Singh suffers injury on right hand.
* Sharma is taken to the nearby Holy Family Hospital, where doctors immediately wheel him into the operation theatre to remove a bullet lodged in his stomach.
* Senior police officials, including Joint Commissioner of Police (Special Cell) Karnal Singh and Deputy commissioner of Police (Special Cell) Alok Kumar arrive at Jamia Nagar.
* Various teams of the Special Cell are pressed into the service along with a platoon of elite National Security Guards commandos.
* Teams wearing protective gear once again try to move into the apartment.
* As both side trade fire, police asked people in the area to remain indoors.
* Police fired a total of 22 rounds; occupants of apartment retaliate with eight rounds.
* Two suspected terrorists are gunned down, even as two others managed to flee from the rear of the apartment, apparently by jumping onto the roof of an adjoining building; one man is captured as police move into the apartment.
* Police teams remove the bodies of the dead and take away the captured man to an undisclosed location.
Around 11.45 am:
* Police declare the firefight over.
* People come out of the their houses and chant anti-police slogans, expressing their anger to reporters for wrongly reporting that terrorists were hiding in a nearby mosque.
4 pm:
* Delhi Police Commissioner YS Dadwal holds press conference to announce that one of the dead was Asif, mastermind of Delhi bombings.
7 pm
* Inspector Mohan Chand Sharma, grievously injured in the police raid, is dead.