CHANDIGARH: Mahender Chawla, the main eye witness in the case involving Narayan Sai survived an attack as two unidentified men opened fire on him at his residence in Sanauli village, the last village of Panipat on Haryana-UP Border.With two bullets shot in his shoulder, Mahender Chawla was rushed to the hospital. Panipat SP Rahul Sharma said that he has been hospitalized and doctors are peforming surgical procedure on him to extricate the bullets."We are in the process to identify the assailants. At the same time we have started our operations after registering a case following the complaint of victim’s brother,’’ said SP.Having being left red faced after the attack on Chawla, the police has increased the security arrangments in and around the hospital where victim has been rushed. Notably, Chawla had been making rounds of Haryana police to the security as he had apprehended life threat."We have already provided gunmen to Chawla. Rest we are probing the lapse on the part of our people,’’ said Panipat SP while referring to police failure in providing security to Chawla and his family.Chawla is the fourth such witness who has been attacked. Earlier three persons, who included husband of complainant woman, a medico and a cook had been attacked at Surat, Rajkot of Gujarat and Muzzaffarnagar of UP respectively. Complainant’s husband has survivied while cook and medico identified Amrut Prajapati and Akhil Gupta had died in the attacks.On April 16, the Gujarat high court had granted conditional bail of three weeks to Narayan Sai, son of self-proclaimed godman Asaram Bapu.Narain Sai is accused of committing repeated sexual assaults between 2002 and 2005 on a woman who was living at his Surat ashram, following which he was booked under various sections of the IPC, including rape, unnatural sex, molestation, wrongful confinement etc.