Woman shot at, fights off robbers who barged into her northeast Delhi home

In her statement filed at Jyoti Nagar police station, the injured woman, Shayma, said she was alone at home on Thursday when the two masked men entered the house.

A 32-year-old woman put up a spirited fight despite being shot at by one of the two robbers who barged into her house in northeast Delhi, forcing the two assailants to flee, police said. The incident took place in Kardampuri, near Jyoti Nagar in northeast Delhi on Thursday afternoon. The robbers fired at least two bullets at the woman, one of which hit her in the waist while the other missed, police said on Saturday.

She claimed one of them had a knife and the other carried a gun. (Getty Images/iStockphoto)

In her statement filed at Jyoti Nagar police station, the injured woman, Shayma, said she was alone at home on Thursday when the two masked men entered the house. She claimed one of them had a knife and the other carried a gun. The first intruder overpowered Shayma and in the ensuing melee his mask came off and knife fell on the floor. Seeing this, the other intruder fired at Shayma with the bullet hitting her in the waist, a police officer said quoting the victim’s statement.

He fired a second time but missed, and the woman pushed him aside and ran down the stairs shouting for help, the officer said. The attackers immediately fled the building without taking anything from the house.

Shayma was taken to GTB hospital by her husband and is out of danger.

Deputy commissioner of police (northeast) Sanjay Kumar Sain said, “We have certain leads about the suspects and our teams are working on it.”