India, Feb. 5 -- A suspected carjacker from Assam's Guwahati was injured when he tried to escape police custody and sustained bullet injuries in the subsequent firing, officials said.

The incident happened in the Jorabat area of Guwahati in the early hours of Wednesday. A senior police officer said that they arrested three carjackers on Tuesday and one of them, during interrogation, told them that he would help the police recover the stolen cars.

"The carjacker, identified as Dibyajyoti Saikia, guided our team to an area near Jorabat where an unknown group started pelting stones at the police. Taking advantage of the situation, Dibyajyoti tried to flee," the police official said.

Saikia, the police said, tried to snatch their guns and ...