Singer-rapper Rahul Fazilpuria claims he was shot at in Gurgaon

“No one has been injured, nor has any vehicle been hit by a bullet in this incident. The Gurugram Police’s Scene of Crime team reached the location. The alleged gunshot has not been confirmed so far. The incident is being investigated from all angles,” read an official statement by the city police.

The 35-year-old singer-rapper called up the local station house officer (SHO) to inform them about the incident, said sources.

He was allegedly standing near his SUV when the attackers came in another car. Soon after, he sat in his car and sped away. The attacker could not chase him due to the traffic, and he managed to escape, police were told.

According to him, the attackers fired at him multiple times, but he was not injured and his vehicle was not damaged, sources added.

An officer said that a team immediately rushed to the spot as soon as they got the information. A senior officer said the CCTV cameras installed nearby are being checked to identify the accused.

Sources said police had earlier received a tip-off over a threat to a singer living in Gurgaon.

The singer-rapper, who has been promoting Haryanvi folk music, has several hits to his credit. In 2014, he rose to fame with his rap song ‘Ladki Kar Gayi Chull’, which also featured in the Bollywood movie ‘Kapoor and Sons’, starring Alia Bhatt, Sidharth Malhotra, and Fawad Khan.

Fazilpuria had unsuccessfully contested the Lok Sabha election in 2024 from Gurgaon as a Jannayak Janta Party candidate against Congress’s Raj Babbar and BJP’s Rao Inderjit Singh, who was elected. The JJP was founded in 2018 by Dushyant Chautala, former deputy chief minister of Haryana.

Last year, he was booked by the Gurgaon Police along with YouTuber Elvish Yadav, for allegedly using rare species of snakes and a .32 bore pistol in a music video.

The duo was also questioned by the Enforcement Directorate in connection with allegations linked to money laundering and rave parties. The agency had confiscated movable and immovable assets worth over Rs 58 lakh allegedly belonging to the duo under provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) in connection with a similar snake venom case registered by the Noida Police.