Dilshad was admitted to Fortis Hospital, Mohali, where the family had to face harassment at the hands of the hospital staff after which Dilshad’s uncle Naginder Singh took him to General Hospital, Sector 16, from where he was referred to PGI.

Dilshad told the police that he had gone to his maternal uncle’s house in Sector 24, Chandigarh, along with his mother and younger brother and he returned to his house in Phase X after having dinner. While he was parking his car, he saw an unidentified person coming out of his house. He challenged the person, who started running. Dilshad followed the man for some distance, but the unidentified man fired at him. “The bullet hit my thigh and the person fled from the spot,” Dilshad said.