The incident occurred after the gang tried to snatch away the mobile phone of an on-duty plainclothesman in Chilkalguda police limits.
Telangana police. (Wikimedia)
Police opened fire in the air after a four-member gang tried to attack them in Hyderabad, police said on Saturday, 22 June. The incident happened under Chilkalguda police station on the intervening night of Friday and Saturday when the gang tried to snatch a mobile phone from one of the personnel involved in the decoy operation.