New Delhi, Nov 28 (PTI) A 23-year-old man was injured when three unidentified men allegedly fired at him after a scuffle broke out between them on a petty issue in west Delhi's Janakpuri area on Saturday, police said.

The man has been identified as Raja Alam, a resident of Mahavir Enclave in west Delhi, they said.

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On Saturday afternoon, when Alam was sitting on a bench in a park near a temple in Janakpuri, a man came and asked him to keep his foot down. When he refused to do so, he abused him and left the place, a senior police officer said.

However, after some time, the man again came there along with two more men. They got engaged in a scuffle with Alam during which one of them took out a gun and fired at the victim, he said.

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Alam was rushed to Deen Dayal Upadhyay hospital in Harinagar where he is undergoing treatment and is stated to be stable, said Deepak Purohit, Deputy Commissioner of Police (West).

A case has been registered and a hunt has been launched to nab the culprits, he said.

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