NEW DELHI: Undaunted by gun-wielding criminals who snatched a bag of cash from his father on Thursday, a teenager chased them until he was stopped in his track by a gunshot. Even as he lay unconscious on the road, some people managed to grab one of the robbers, though the other fled with the cash.When Munish Kumar, a dairy shop owner in Sector 3 of Rohini in north-west Delhi, was readying to go to a bank in the afternoon to deposit Rs 3.5 lakh, his 16-year-old son Sunny joined him. Just as Kumar was starting his scooter, two men, their faces obscured by helmets, rode up on a motorcycle and confronted them. They pointed a gun at the dairy owner and snatched the bag of money he held in his hand.The men easily warded off Sunny’s attempts to grab them and rode away. But the boy immediately set off on a chase. A little further, the motorcycle the robbers were riding stalled and fell. Sunny almost caught up to them, but one of the men saw him approaching and opened fire at him. The teenager was hit on the abdomen and fell to the ground.Kumar rushed to the spot and tried to hold on to the criminals but was deterred by one of them throwing chilli powder in his face. Alerted by the sound of the gunshot, however, some local people ran to the rescue. When the motorbike failed to start, they were able to catch the rider. The captors thrashed the robber, but in the melee, the pillion rider, who had shot at Sunny, fled with the money.The nabbed man was identified as Somveer, a Haryana resident. Rajneesh Gupta, DCP (Rohini), later said, “We have registered a case and launched a manhunt to catch Somveer’s associate.” A team has gone to Sampla in Haryana in pursuit of the absconding criminal.Sunny, who usually rode home to Daulatpur near Shahbad Dairy with this father after school, was taken to Jaipur Golden Hospital and underwent surgery in the evening.