RPF constable shot in head in Allahabad; critical

A constable with the Railway Protection Force (RPF) was critically injured after unidentified persons allegedly shot him in head a few hundred metres from the railway station here today, a senior police official said.
"The constable, identified as Hakim Singh, was riding a motorcycle when he was shot at by unidentified persons in Khuldabad locality. He has been rushed to a hospital," Additional Superintendent of Police (Crime), Allahabad, Arun Kumar Pandey said.
He said that "details available as of now are insufficient to suggest who could be the suspected assailants and what could have been their motive."
"We would have to wait till tomorrow for recording of statement as doctors claim that by then the constable is likely to regain consciousness," he added.

The gunshot injury was in the head. The bullet, however, could not be traced in the X-ray report. Apparently, the bullet had pierced through his skull, Pandey added.