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NEW DELHI, September 14: A high-level meeting was held at the South-west district police headquarters this evening to devise viable game-plans to nab the psyochopath8217; on the prowl in the Capital. DCP South-west P.K. Bharadwaj told Express Newsline that 8220;we have devised new strategies that could lead us to the cop-killer8217;. The entire district has been put on alert and senior police officers will patrol south Delhi at night8221;.
In a related development, the South-west district police have confirmed that the pistol used in the Hyatt shoot-out case last Tuesday which injured a eunuch, was indeed a police pistol apparently used by the psychopath8217; stalking south Delhi residents and the police for the past two months.
This came about after the police recovered the bullet from 22-year-old Bobby, the eunuch, who was shot at near the Hyatt Regency last week. The bullet had been fired from a .455 caliber pistol used by the police. The weapon is still feared to be in possession of the alleged psychopath.
A senior south-west district official said that 8220;though we have not sent the bullet for examination, it is confirmed that it was fired from a pistol used by the policemen in the capital8221;.
The number of incidents that the police have attributed to the cop-killer include two murders, two attempted murders and three robberies. Senior officers today cautioned policemen on beat duty to restrain themselves if they suddenly came across someone resembling the psychopath8217;. 8220;We have taken this measure so that policeman don8217;t take any action in haste without confirming that the suspect they are confronting is the alleged psychopath,8221; a policeman said. The Sarojini Nagar police had earlier accosted a Doordarshan employee assuming he were the cop-killer.
