Police have arrested a man for allegedly firing a shot in the air outside the MGF Mall in Gurugram, recovering a car and the weapon used in the crime, police said on Sunday.
The incident took place on Saturday morning when a car coming from inside the mall stopped at the exit gate, and the driver, Naveen Kumar, 39, a resident of Bas Mohalla in Delhi's Ghitorni, took out his hand from the vehicle and allegedly fired a shot into the air before fleeing the scene.
After the CCTV footage of the incident surfaced on social media, the police registered an FIR at the DLF Phase 2 station and arrested the accused that same evening, the police said.
"Investigation revealed that the accused had left the Queen Club at the mall and subsequently carried out the shooting at the mall gate. Kumar, a Delhi and Gurugram-based property dealer, has been involved in minor disputes, and is currently being interrogated", a spokesperson of Gurugram police said.