Overview

• A six-member women’s team on a routine vehicle check at Lohia Nagar near Meerut Road signaled a scooter to stop, the rider fell, allegedly opened fire, and was shot in the leg in retaliatory fire.
• Police identified the suspect as Jitendra, 22, of Vijaynagar, describing him as a history-sheeter with at least eight cases for robbery, theft, and snatching.
• Recovered items include a scooter reported stolen from Delhi, a Samsung tablet, a Samsung mobile phone, and a country-made .315 pistol with cartridges.
• Officers said the accused admitted to stealing vehicles and snatching phones and money across the NCR, with the tablet and phone allegedly taken near Crossings Republik.
• ACP Upasana Pandey and SHO Ritu Tyagi led the operation, which police and local media described as Ghaziabad’s first all-women encounter.