Man shot at by burglars

Nashik: Fifty-year-old Kiran Sonawane was shot at in Satana, around 90km from Nashik, by unidentified burglars when he tried to nab them during a theft attempt in his jewellery shop.
The criminals managed to escape the scene but couldn't lay their hands on any valuables inside the shop.
The police have launched a hunt to trace the criminals, who escaped in an ivory coloured sports utility vehicle (SUV).The Satana police said the burglars fled towards Malegaon. Police teams across the district as well as in Nandurbar, Ahmednagar and Dhule have been alerted.
Around 2am on Saturday, around four burglars arrived in an SUV and halted in front of Ahirrao Jewellers in the Shivaji Road market area of Satana. The shop is on the ground floor of Kiran's two-storeyed house. While Kiran stays on the ground floor, sharing a common wall with the shop, his two brothers stay on the other two floors.
Jagdish Sonawane, Kiran's elder brother, said that one of the burglars alighted from the SUV and broke open the shutter of the shop, waking up Kiran in the process. Kiran peeped through the window and saw a man in black clothes entering the shop. He picked up a wooden stick and got out of the house. Thinking that the burglar he saw inside the shop had already left the premises and sat inside the car, Kiran smashed the rear glass of the SUV with the stick. But the burglar was still inside and on seeing the latter smashing the car's window, he pulled out a fire arm and shot a round, hurting Kiran on his thigh.
Kiran collapsed and was taken to the hospital. Police inspector Pandurang Patil said the police reached the spot in 15 minutes after which they ordered nakabandi across the district and intimated police teams of the neighbouring district to be on the lookout of the burglars.
Kiran's family members said he was out of danger. The residents of Satana said that the place where the attempt of house break-in was made was a commercial area of the town, which also has a couple of close circuit television cameras (CCTV) installed on the streets. They said that they were pinning their hopes on the footage these CCTVs have captured.
The police have registered a case under Section 459 of the Indian Penal Code for causing grievous hurt in the attempted house break-in and other different sections of the Arms Act.