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ASSAILANTS FIRE IN COURT ROOM; CONSTABLE DEAD

| DECEMBER 24, 2015, 12:00 AM IST

* A Delhi Police constable was killed and two others seriously injured when assailants opened fire inside a courtroom in east Delhi's Karkardooma Court on Wednesday, following which four youths have been detained

* Metropolitan Magistrate Sunil Gupta also had a close shave as one of the bullets scraped past his chair and hit the wall behind, said police

* The deceased constable, identified as Ram Kumar, posted at Delhi Police's third battalion, was hit by four bullets.

* The assailants, of which some are suspected to be minors, fired around ten rounds. The four youths detained so far belong to northeast Delhi's Seelampur and nearby areas

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