Delhi Armed Police (DAP) head constable suffered a wound in his left thigh after a colleague’s revolver went off accidentally outside Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s heavily guarded office in New Delhi on Friday. An official of Police said that the head constable & commando Sanjiv Kumar was admitted to the Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital after the accidental firing around noon. Doctors proclaimed him out of danger. Sanjiv Kumar’s colleague Suraj Pal has been arrested.

The firing occurred when Kumar & Constable Suraj Pal were both in a small cabin in the parking area outside the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) in South Block near the presidential palace Rashtrapati Bhavan.

It was still unclear that how the firing occurred, but police sources claimed that Kumar had taken the .38 bore service revolver from Suraj Pal and was fiddling with it when the revolver went off & the bullet hit him.

A senior official of Police said, “We have registered a case of negligent firing & mishandling of firearms. Suraj Pal has been arrested & Sanjiv Kumar’s statement is being recorded. Sanjiv Kumar could also be arrested once the inquiry is concluded”.

The official said that there had been no security breach at the PMO. The official also said, “There was no security breach. It was a case of accidental fire. Sanjiv was injured when a bullet was accidentally fired from the service revolver of Suraj Pal”.

Suraj Pal is from the New Delhi district police while Sanjiv is with the second battalion of the DAP. Both were deployed outside the PMO.