Once again local mafia and gangs dared to show their fearlessness by openly firing several rounds to frighten their victim. The shocking shoot-out incident occurred today evening at around 6 pm when 5 people entered into a handicraft and jewelry showroom near Gulab Bagh and extorted money.

Maharana Museum located near Green View Restaurant was ransacked by goons, many expensive artifacts and jewelries have been destroyed by assailants who demanded Rs.1 lakh before fleeing from there.

According to the police sources, assailants were identified as: Vinod aka Bakri, Imran, Malkhan Singh, Shankar and an unknown person who entered into the showroom and asked for the owner Adil Khan. However, as Adil was not there, the culprits asked the cashier, Ashok Sinha to hand over the keys of locker and when Sinha refused to give the keys Vinod opened fire just to scare him while others ransacked the shop.

According Deputy Police officer, Anant Kumar all of them are criminals and have several cases lodged against them, one of them Vinod has been released from jail 2 days ago.

Before leaving from there, they asked Sinha to convey their message to Adil Khan to deliver Rs.1 lakh.

It seems once again Udaipur is getting gripped in the hands of mafias, there are several mafias active in the city from past many years and especially the handicraft mafia is too strong.

Police has lodged the case against all involved in today’s shoot-out, we have lodged them for extortion and arms-act, said Sohard Singh SHO Surajpol.

Report by Sayeed Ahmed