Ram Posted December 11, 2007 Share Posted December 11, 2007 India boys 'shoot classmate dead' A schoolboy has been shot dead by two fellow students at a school campusnear the Indian capital Delhi, police say. The 14-year-old was killed instantly after being fired on at the private Euro International school in the suburb of Gurgaon, police said. Gurgaon police commissioner Mahendra Lal told the BBC that two boys had been taken into custody. Incidents of gun crime at schools and colleges in India are very rare. It is not clear what prompted the shooting. Gun questions Indian TV channels named the dead boy as Abhishek Tyagi.Police say they believe one of the boys they are questioning managed to smuggle his father's gun into the school and hid it in a toilet. After school closed for the day, the boy and one of his friends retrieved the gun and took turns to fire five shots at their classmate, killing him on the spot, Mr Lal told the BBC. The BBC's Jyotsna Singh in Delhi says the dead boy's father is in the transport business and the two boys in detention are the sons of property dealers. Mr Lal said police would be questioning the parents of one of the boys in custody about the gun."Those who are given an armed licence are required to ensure that the weapon is kept in a secure place away from innocent children." Euro International school in question is located in sector 45 of Gurgaon, one of Delhi's booming satellite towns which is experiencing booming property and business expansion. The school's website describes it as one of Gurgaon's top schools. It says it is a "state-of-the-art environment" and has CCTV cameras installed in all classrooms. The school was not immediately available for comment. Private schools have sprung up in suburbs around Delhi in recent years catering for children of rich farmers, property developers and businessmen, among others. Despite India's stringent gun control laws, a number of recent feuds over property deals in suburbs such as Gurgaon have been settled with firearms. ---- http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7138573.stm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cricketics Posted December 11, 2007 Share Posted December 11, 2007 insane bloody kids.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sachinism Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 anyone know what was the reason behind the shooting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suma25 Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 anyone know what was the reason behind the shooting the guy qho got killed wa bullying the other two kids so in retaliation the guys shot him.the guys'dad from whom he had stolen the gun has been charged as well... the children are detainedin remand homes while their parents are absconding shameful.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apocalypse Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 Still simmering with resentment, the Class VIII student who allegedly fired four shots at his colleague seems unrepentant about the killing. "Yes, I killed Abhishek," the 14-year-old said without a trace of remorse or hesitation when he was produced at Sector 40 police station after the shooting at Euro International School here. The two boys allegedly killed Abhishek Tyagi as "he was physically stronger than both of them and been beating them up for the past two months", Gurgaon Police Commissioner Mohinder Lal said on Wednesday. Briefing reporters about their confessional statements, he said the two carried a grouse against Abhishek as he used to "tease them" at every opportunity so the decided to take "revenge". The boys told police that the three of them were not "enemies" as they used to meet only during recess and when school closed for the day. "We are students of Class VIII Section B on the ground floor while Abhishek was in Section A on the second floor," Lal said, quoting the boys who have been sent to a Juvenile court in Sonepat. Their last meeting proved fateful yesterday, when the two accosted Abhishek in the school premises and fired five shots at him. Two bullets hit him in the chest and one in the head, the CP added. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Yes_I_killed_Abhishek/articleshow/2617934.cms Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beetle Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 Gurgaon is full of such moronic property dealers who made it rich with the property boom and think nothing of flaunting the new found power(in the form of guns ). The real culprits are the parents who think keeping the gun in the TV cabinet is something to be proud of. Such parents should be held responsible for the murder and should be punished for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest dada_rocks Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 How must those parents be feeling whose son got murdered. Very thought of sthg like this drives me teary. Kis tarah ke parents hain jo bachchon ko gun ka access itani aasani se dete hain.. Had not been for gun at worst they wud have foought with fist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest dada_rocks Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 Jaat culture viz a viz owning gun is similar to Bihari culture. I shudder to think how it must eb in our parosi land there they call gun male's ornament. Ab sare jaat log aao meri aisi ki taisi karo.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brainfade Posted December 14, 2007 Share Posted December 14, 2007 Gurgaon is full of such moronic property dealers who made it rich with the property boom and think nothing of flaunting the new found power(in the form of guns ). The real culprits are the parents who think keeping the gun in the TV cabinet is something to be proud of. Such parents should be held responsible for the murder and should be punished for it. And I'd be willing to bet that the kids get away with no punishment or intervention. Their life will go on untouched. Rich parents, influential lawyers, slow court system - all work in favor of the rich kids. But if the culprits were a couple of poor slum-dwellers who knived/shot a rich kid, things would be very different. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest dada_rocks Posted December 15, 2007 Share Posted December 15, 2007 cudn't agree more.. don't we hear stories of people who spent their whole life in jail without their cases ever getting heard by any court.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chunky_lafanga Posted December 16, 2007 Share Posted December 16, 2007 Do you guys have any idea how much violent stuff goes on in India? On the whole India might be immune to US style mass shooting but our India is very violent as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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