Haryana policeman arrested for 'shooting at doctor who refused to issue a fake medical certificate'

A Haryana policeman was arrested for allegedly firing at a doctor in Karnal who refused to issue a fake medical certificate. The doctor is said to have escaped unhurt.



The policeman, identified as sub-inspector Kashmir Singh, allegedly wanted to implicate someone in a murder case.

"The incident took place at 2.45am when Kashmir Singh entered the trauma centre and asked me to prepare a false medical certificate of his relative. He wanted to implicate someone in a murder case. As I refused, he started hurling abuses at me. He was drunk. He got angry and shot at me with his service revolver," Dr Nipun Kalra, a surgeon at Kalpana Chawla Government Medical College, Karnal, said.



The SI's drunken act was captured on a CCTV camera

Kalra said the incident had left him and his colleagues scared as the accused policeman was wielding a gun on the hospital campus.



"We immediately called the police which reached the hospital after half an hour," Kalra added.



Karnal deputy superintendent of police Joginder Rathi also reached the spot and booked the policeman after verifying the incident from the eyewitness and the CCTV footage.

