GURGAON: The wife and 18-year-old son of a judge were shot at by his gunman in a busy market in Gurgaon Saturday afternoon. Both have been taken to a hospital where sources say, the son is critical. The wife is reportedly out of danger.

The incident took place around 3:30 pm near Arcadia Market in Sector 49, Gurgaon, where the wife and son of additional sessions judge Krishan Kant Sharma had gone shopping.

The gunman first shot the wife and then the son and tried to drag him in the car. But when he couldn't, he left them on the road and drove away in the same car, shows the video footage captured by eyewitnesses from their cellphones.

n his way, he called the judge to say, "I have shot your wife and son". He made two more calls telling people about the shooting, including his mother.

The injured have been identified as Ritu, 38, and Dhruv.

The gunman, Mahipal Singh, had been posted with the judge for the past two years.

After shooting at them, Mahipal reached a police station where he fired again, before fleeing from there. The Station House Officer tried to catch hold of him but in vain. He was arrested from Faridabad later.

Initial investigations suggest that he was suffering from depression and was upset at the "misbehaviour" by the judge's family. Mahipal Singh belongs to Mahendragarh in Haryana. His wife is a teacher and he has two children - seven and three years old.