CCTV captures armed attack on Jabalpur shopkeeper:Gun fails to fire, bomb hurled; gang demands protection money

First, he aimed the country-made pistol, pressed the trigger to fire, but it didn’t go off. After that, he threw a bomb. The incident is from the Manegaon area of Jabalpur. On Monday, two miscreants demanded protection money from a shopkeeper for illegal extortion. When he refused, they threatened him. Then, after committing the crime, they fled the scene. When the Ranji police station received information about the incident, the police reached the spot and started searching for the miscreants by scanning CCTV footage. The two youths have been identified as Vivek Kol and Monu Shukla, residents of Ranji. See pictures
After buying goods, he pointed the country-made pistol. According to the information, Sanjay Shripal has a grocery store in Ranji Manegaon, Gandhi Chowk. On Monday morning around 11 am, when Sanjay was in the shop, two miscreants arrived with their faces covered. First, both bought some items, then pulled out a country-made pistol, pointed it at him and started saying that ‘our terror runs here, if we don’t get 5 thousand rupees protection money every month, we will make your life difficult’. After this, the miscreants started demanding money, to which Sanjay refused, they got angry and left from there. When they tried to fire, the trigger got stuck About 5 minutes later, Vivek and Monu reached the shop again and as soon as they started firing, aiming the country-made pistol, the trigger got stuck. Even after this, they kept trying to fire continuously, and when they were unsuccessful, they threw four bombs at the shop one after another, three of which hit the shop, while one live bomb remained there. After the incident, an atmosphere of chaos spread in the vicinity. After the incident, Ranji CSP Satish Sahu reached the spot with his team and started examining the CCTV footage installed in the shop, where both miscreants were seen committing the crime. The TI said that a case has been registered against Vivek and Monu and a search has been launched.