Delhi encounter: Timeline
New Delhi, Sep 20: The Delhi encounter between the police and terrorists in L-18 building of Jamia Nagar on Friday, Sep 19 killed two terrorists and a policeman. Here is the sequence of events.
At
10
am:
Police
reaches
the
building
A
team
of
20
people
led
by
Assistant
Commissioner
of
Police
(ACP)
Sanjeev
Yadav
reaches
Jamia
Nagar
of
East
Delhi.
The
team
takes
position
on
the
building
around
4
storey
apartment
block
L-18,
Bathla
House
near
Khaleela
mosque.
At
11
am:
Sharma's
encounter
with
terrorists
Inspector
Mohan
Chand
Sharma
was
not
wearing
a
flak
jacke.
He
knocks
on
the
front
door
of
an
apartment
on
the
fourth
floor
of
L-18
building
and
asks
the
inmates
to
come
out
for
police
verification.
Occupants
open
fire
from
a
0.3
mm
pistol.
Three bullets hit Sharma; two pass through his body. Sharma collapses, as the policemen take shelter. Head Constable Balwan Singh suffers injury on right hand. Sharma is taken to the nearby Holy Family Hospital, where doctors immediately wheel him into the operation theatre to remove a bullet lodged in his stomach.
Senior police officials, including Joint Commissioner of Police (Special Cell) Karnal Singh and Deputy commissioner of Police (Special Cell) Alok Kumar arrive at Jamia Nagar. Various teams of the Special Cell are pressed into the service along with a platoon of elite National Security Guards commandos.
Teams wearing protective gear once again try to move into the apartment. Police asked people in the area to remain indoors. Police fired a total of 22 rounds; occupants of apartment retaliate with eight rounds.
Two suspected terrorists are gunned down, even as two others managed to flee from the rear of the apartment, apparently by jumping onto the roof of an adjoining building; one man is captured as police move into the apartment.
Police teams remove the bodies of the dead and take away the captured man to an undisclosed location.
At
11.45
am:
End
of
the
fire
fight
Police
declare
about
the
end
of
the
fire
fight.
People
after
coming
out
of
the
their
houses,
got
anguished
about
the
wrong
report
of
the
terrorists
hiding
in
the
mosque
by
the
Police
and
started
chanting
slogans
against
police.
At
4
pm:
Press
conference
of
ACP
Delhi
Police
Commissioner
Y
S
Dadwal
holds
press
conference
to
announce
that
one
of
the
dead
was
Atif,
mastermind
of
Delhi
bombings.
At
7
pm:
Sharma
succumbs
to
injuries
Inspector
Mohan
Chand
Sharma,
grievously
injured
in
the
police
raid,
is
dead.
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