ghaziabad a 40yearold man was arrested from hanuman chowk in raj nagar extension on friday in connection with the hammer attack on a doctors wife and their 23yearold son in vvip society cops have recovered a black bike without a number plate along with a hammer and cutter from the accuseds possession according to the police the accused identified as pawan kumar sharma a resident of muradnagar who used to drive an autorickshaw and owned a poultry shop he was also involved in a number of robberiesa few days before the incident the accused had taken his 8yearold child to dr rajesh for treatment and followed him before trying to rob his houseon june 1 around 7pm the accused entered dr guptas firstfloor flat after cutting through the mesh of the main door of their house he sneaked inside locked the doors and ran into vibha 56 a homemaker and wife of dr gupta pawan had asked her not to raise an alarm and threatened to kill her if she didvibha shouted for help which prompted pawan to hit her twice with a hammer her son viraj a businessman rushed out of his room and tried to intervene but pawan struck him too with the hammer before fleeing from the spotpolice lodged an fir against the accused under sections 307 attempt to murder 323 punishment for voluntarily causing hurt 452 housetrespass after preparation for hurt assault or wrongful restraint and 506 punishment for criminal intimidation of the ipcravi kumar acp of nandgram said that during interrogation the accused had confessed to his crime and revealed that he had done several robberies before he used to target locked houses three days before the incident the accused had done recce of the house he thought that vibha would be alone in the flat kumar saidthe accused was sent to judicial custody after producing him in court police are trying to confirm his crime history with other police stations