A for­mer po­lice of­fi­cer turned de­fence at­tor­ney nar­row­ly es­caped with his life af­ter a gun­man opened fire on him as he ar­rived home on Mon­day night.

Po­lice said around 8 pm on Mon­day, Tara­dath Singh ar­rived at his Cunu­pia home and no­ticed a man dressed in a blue cov­er­all armed with a firearm, emerg­ing from some near­by bush­es.

The man then point­ed the gun at him and shot at his white BMW ve­hi­cle be­fore run­ning off.

No mo­tive was giv­en for the at­tack.

Po­lice are search­ing for the gun­man, who was iden­ti­fied as a man of African de­scent, slim-built, dark-com­plex­ioned, wear­ing a dark coloured hood­ie and grey three-quar­ter pants. - Jensen La Vende