new delhi a 15yearold boy was shot at while trying to catch hold of two snatchers on friday morning in northwest delhis shalimar bagh the boy rohit who was selling coconut water at his stall as his father is down with typhoid said that an elderly man praveen kumar jain was standing near his stall and drinking coconut water when the snatchers targeted him he was wearing a gold chain that the snatchers tried to pull but failed as they tried to flee after this jain fell on them and they lost their balance when they again started to run the boy chased them and caught hold of one of them almost 50 metres ahead a scuffle ensued after which one of the snatchers who had managed to get away shot at the boy so that he would let go of his accomplice the boy was hit on the right shoulder the snatchers managed to flee thought the incident took place in front of over 50 people in the marketrohit spoke to toi on friday and said that it was his responsibility to hand over those men to the police to prevent them from repeating such incidents i knew that they could fire at me too but i looked at the positive side and started chasing them a lot of people watched the entire incident but didnt try to catch hold of them as they ran away said rohit dcp northwest aslam khan said that the matter was reported at 830am when they received a pcr call by a passerby stating that someone had been shot soon after which a team was sent to the spot where they were told that the victim was taken to max hospital police said that both jain and rohit were injured while rohit received a bullet injury jain was injured because of falling on the snatchers bikepolice said that the snatchers came on a black apache bike and left it at the spot the doctors have said that rohit is out of dangerrohit lives with his parents and two siblings in mukundpur and is a student of class ix he has always been brave but we fear for his safety said pappu rohits fatherpolice have registered a case cctv footage from the area is being scanned to identify the two accused