Police clueless about bullet that hit 10-year-old

NEW DELHI: Forty-eight hours after a 10-year-old boy was hit by a stray bullet in an east Delhi colony, the police are struggling to find clues about the source of the bullet or the identity of the attacker.

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Aman was hit by a stray bullet near his New Sanjay Amar Colony residence in east Delhi on Thursday evening.

His parents took him to a hospital on Thursday for treatment for what they thought was a simple wound. The doctors later told them that the boy was hit by a bullet, which has been removed from Aman’s abdomen.

Police are questioning locals to find if they had seen anyone with a gun in the area but have not got any leads.

“The bullet wound is not very deep. We suspect it was fired from a distance and not with the intention to kill,” said an investigating officer.

On Saturday, when HT visited the spot, they found forensic officers gathering evidence from outside the boy’s house.

“We suspect someone may have fired a shot in the air and the bullet hit the child. We are trying to figure out the direction from which the bullet was fired,” said a police officer.

Around 10pm on Thursday, Aman, a class 4 student, was returning home from a shop when he felt something had hit him in his lower left abdomen. Aman, who was bleeding, informed his uncle.

“We thought it was a minor injury, probably caused by a stone or something. We took him to a nearby clinic where they advised us to take the boy to Dr Hedgewar Aarogya Sansthan. The doctors found a bullet and transferred him to Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital,” said Aman’s father, Ranveer Singh.

A doctor at the hospital said that the bullet, which went a centimetre inside his abdomen, was removed. Aman’s mother Prema said her son is recovering at the hospital.