Raiganj, July 2: A youth was today shot at while on a morning walk in Bandar, barely 100 metres from where a cable operator was fired at on Monday evening. Police suspect today’s firing was the result of a love triangle.

The bullet grazed Subhankar Chakraborty’s head and he had to be hospitalised. Like every other day, Chakraborty was on the Ram Sita Mandir grounds with his friend Arjun Saha around 6am when two men on a motorcycle arrived.

“They summoned us. When we came near them, one of the youths threatened Subankar saying he had exceeded his limits in college yesterday. Any repetition of such behaviour might be fatal for him,” Arjun said. When Subhankar replied back, abusing the duo, the man riding pillion whipped out a pistol and fired. Subhankar fell to the ground. The youths fled with the motorcycle which had no numberplate, Arjun said.

His cries for help attracted the local people who arranged to take the 22-year-old to the hospital, where the cable operator Gopi Chowhan is also recuperating. Chowhan had alleged that he was shot at by hooligans hired by the rival cable company. One person had been arrested.

Subhankar (in picture by Nantu Dey) said he did not know the two youths. Police said he had graduated from Surendranath College in Raiganj last year. He had an affair with a girl in the institute. When Subhankar went to the college yesterday, he had a fight with some students who had been teasing the girl.

However, district superintendent of police Sankar Singha said: “The shooting was a result of a suspected love triangle. We have got some names and are looking for them,” Singha said.