A 24 year old man who was thought to be dead after he shot himself in the face during a police encounter is actually alive and is still missing, police told PTI on Monday.
Rudresh, also known as RDX, and his partner were hiding in a house in Naya Nohara on Sunday when the police surrounded them. During this period, Rudresh is said to have shot himself in the face. His body was later taken to a mortuary.
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On Monday, his family members identified the body as another criminal’s body. CCTV footage showed that Rudresh ran away from the house just moments before the police arrived there.
The body was wrongly identified beacause of the mutilated state of the man’s face and a few of his belongings being scattered in the room. At the time of raid, police also found three weapons from the house.
The man who was misidentified for Rudresh-Pritam Goswami, was a native of Bundi district and was living with his parents in Kota for years. He had more than 15 cases filed against him in different police stations.
Even Rudresh was wanted by the police along with three accomplices, in a case related to firing a gun at a paan shop owner’s brother on January 2, in an area which is under Mahaveer Nagar station.
The four men were in a car and asked for cigarettes. When the owner of the shop denied then one of the four fired and wounded the shop owner’s brother Pavan Singh.
Currently Singh is undergoing treatment at New Medical College Hospital. One of Rudresh’s aides, Rajneesh Poter, was arrested earlier but Rudresh still remains missing, though police efforts to arrest him are still going on.
