Man fires bullets near anti-CAA protest site in Delhi's Shaheen Bagh area, taken into police custody

The Delhi Police then took him into custody.

A man on Saturday fired bullets in Shaheen Bagh area of the national capital, near the anti-Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) protest site. There were no injuries. The accused opened fire near the barricade of the protest site near the Jasola red light. 

The man has been identified as 25-year-old Kapil Gujjar, a student of a private college. The Delhi Police have taken him into custody. Delhi DCP Chinmay Biswal said that the man resorted to two rounds of firing in the air. "The man had resorted to aerial firing. Police immediately overpowered and caught him," said DCP Biswal. The weapon used by him has been seized.

Biswal said, "At around 4.45 pm, a person opened air fire and only then the police caught him from the spot. His name is Kapil. He fired two rounds and two empty shells were recovered. He resides across River Yamuna. The case is being registered. Barricades have been set up on both sides so that law and order can be maintained, but people are coming from different places in this protest. We spoke to the protesters, who have blocked the road, informing that mischief mongers might also try to enter the site and that they should go to some other site to protest. A country-made pistol was likely used but it has been recovered."

After the firing women formed a human chain at the site of the firing. The people in the area started protesting against the firing at Shaheen Bagh.

It was a wedding of someone in his family and he had to take a detour to buy goods which made him angry. After police inquiry, he said he was angry that "a handful of people in his own country have captured the road of Shaheen Bagh". He was angry about it and had come by auto to open the road.

The shooting comes in less than 48 hours since the shooting in the Jamia area. On January 30, while the Jamia Milia Islamia University students were marching from Jamia to Rajghat, an attacker shot a student named Shadab while raising slogans. 

Demonstrations against the CAA and National Register of Citizens (NRC) have been taking place in Jamia and Shaheen Bagh for the last nearly 50 days.

A Delhi court on Friday had sent the 17-year-old minor to 14-day protective custody. The Crime Branch of Delhi Police has, applied to carry out an ossification test of the Jamia shooter to ascertain his age. The minor, who is a resident of Gautam Budh Nagar, Uttar Pradesh, had triggered panic in the area by opening fire in broad daylight in presence of policemen deployed there.

The entire drama, which was captured by television cameras, showed the young man in light coloured pants and a dark jacket, walking away on an empty road barricaded by police, turning around and shouting at the protesters in Hindi, "Here, take this freedom." 

Behind him, a group of policemen could be seen in the frame. Seconds later, he was apprehended by the police.

The bag of the minor shooter was recovered containing several inflammatory slogans. The shooter had a red bag, which was left back the road after the attack. A guard of Jamia picked it up from the road believing it to a student's bag and gave it to the Chief Proctor of Jamia. When this bag was opened on Friday some books, mark sheets and a purse were found.

According to Zee News sources, besides some of the provocative sloganned posters, banners saying 'Mandir wahi banayenge' (We will make the temple there) was also found. According to Jamia's Chief Proctor, "Some test papers have also been found, in which the name of the attacker is written. These papers also include the address of the attacker. Apart from this, a purse and some photographs were also found. The bag was found by the guard of Jamia University and it was later handed over to the police."