MEERUT, Sept. 28 -- A 42-year-old English coaching teacher was allegedly shot at by a masked assailant near Sharda Road in Meerut's Brahmpuri area on Friday night, police said.

Despite bleeding profusely, the teacher, Amit Tyagi, managed to ride his scooter to a hospital, where doctors saved his life, police said, adding a probe was on and the accused was yet to be identified.

Brahmpuri SHO Ramakant Pachauri said Tyagi's statement had been recorded and the sequence of events was being verified. "Police teams have been deployed to trace the attackers. The victim is undergoing treatment and is out of danger," he said.

According to reports, Tyagi had just finished a meeting with colleagues and reached the ground floor of his institute whe...