Simply two days earlier than the assault, caught in horrifying element, Mangla apologized to the household for stalking the lady, her sister instructed reporters. Photograph:
A hunt is on for the alleged stalker who shot at a 17-year-old JEE aspirant in broad daylight, wounding her within the shoulder and stomach, police mentioned on Tuesday (November 4, 2025).
A Class 12 scholar who was on her means again from the library when she was attacked in Faridabad’s Shyam Colony on Monday night, is steady and below remedy at a hospital, they mentioned.
The principle accused — seen ready for her on the street in CCTV footage, strolling as much as her after which capturing her at point-blank vary — has been recognized as 20-year-old Jatin Mangla, who labored as an accountant, from Sarmathla village close to Sohna in Gurugram, officers mentioned.
One bullet struck the teenager’s shoulder and one other grazed her stomach.
Simply two days earlier than the assault, caught in horrifying element, Mangla apologized to the household for stalking the lady, her sister instructed reporters.
Based on police, Mangla and the teenager went to the identical library to check.
Mangla took admission within the library to not examine however to get near the lady, a senior investigating officer mentioned.
In her assertion given to the police on Tuesday, the class-12 lady mentioned that the accused had been harassing her for a very long time. “On Monday night, whereas coming back from the library, the accused arrived on a motorcycle, shot her with a pistol and fled,” mentioned the police.
4 groups have been shaped to trace down the attacker, a Faridabad Police spokesperson mentioned.
The teenager, police officers added, is a Class 12 science scholar of the Open Training Board and getting ready for the JEE.
“The accused enrolled within the Classmate Library about six months in the past, whereas the lady had been enrolled there for a 12 months. The library administration mentioned Jatin Mangla works as an accountant at a close-by non-public faculty,” mentioned Ballabhgarh Metropolis Police Station SHO, Inspector Shamsher Singh.
He mentioned Mangla wouldn’t depart the lady alone and saved hovering round her. Inside 15 days of his admission to the library, Mangla’s membership was canceled and so was the lady’s.
“The lady took admission once more within the library about 5 months in the past, whereas the accused was denied admission. He continued stalking the lady,” Mr. Singh mentioned.
“A number of groups of police station and crime department are conducting raids to arrest him,” he mentioned.
Printed – November 05, 2025 01:25 am IST