gurgaon youve seen this in films but this happened right here in gurgaon next to a rapid metro pillar in sector 55a 27yearold store deputy manager shot at a woman who had turned down his marriage proposal from pointblank range but the bullet didnt pierce her body it was blocked by the only defence she had a tiny piece of metal the woman was wearing a locket and the bullet barrelled straight into it and ricocheted away tanuja name changed suffered minor bruises and is now safeashok kumar the man who shot at her had been in a relationship with the 32yearold from kolkata for several months police said but they broke up in july kumar wasnt however ready to take no for an answer he kept pursuing herwhen she didnt budge he planned to kill tanuja on monday evening he told her he would meet her in sector 55 where she lives in a rented flat on her way back home around 8pm as tanuja approached pillar no 235 of rapid metro kumar accosted her pulled out a countrymade gun he had procured and shot at her he tried to run away but passersby alerted by the sound of a gunshot caught hold of kumar and handed him over to cops at sector 56 police station kumar though told police he wasnt running away and planned to kill himself too but couldnt because people had grabbed his handstanuja was taken to a private hospital and discharged after first aid but her statement is yet to be recorded the complaint based on which kumar was arrested was lodged by chander an eyewitness kumar has been booked under section 307 attempt to murder of the ipc and sections of the arms act on tuesday morning a local court remanded him in police custody for a daywe arrested him and registered an fir against him weve recovered the illegal pistol from his possession well also record the victims statement soon said subinspector babu lal the investigating officerkumar police said met tanuja this january when she visited the sahara mall store in which he was employed to buy an airconditioner during interrogation he revealed he was working as deputy sales manager in an electronic goods showroom where he met tanuja for the first time said inspector narender kumar sho sector 56 police station they fell in love and started a relationship in july she found another girls number on his call records started ignoring him he said he wanted to kill her and then kill himselfkumar is from pahari village near pataudi and lives in surat nagar colony with his family tanuja works with an udyog viharbased private company