6-year-old carries dad’s pistol to high school, ‘mistakenly’ pulls set off on boy, 10 | India Information

PATNA: A six-year-old pre-primary scholar of a Bihar college carried his father’s licensed pistol to class Wednesday and ended up “mistakenly” pulling the set off on a 10-year-old boy inside a classroom. The bullet struck the Class III scholar’s left palm.
Police stated the proprietor of the gun, a guard on the identical college in Supaul district’s Triveniganj, took away his son and the weapon after being knowledgeable of the capturing.Each have been untraceable since.
Triveniganj SDPO Bipin Kumar stated the injured kid’s family members vandalised the college and blocked the city’s major street till police intervened. The boy is out of hazard, he stated.
Investigators dismissed hypothesis in regards to the capturing being linked to a land dispute involving the college and the injured scholar’s household. “How the kid entered the campus with a gun in his bag is the main target of the investigation. The boy who was shot at instructed police that he had nothing in opposition to the junior who fired the weapon,” Kumar stated.
“Prima facie, the bullet was fired mistakenly. Extra will likely be recognized as soon as we hint father and youngster,” the SDPO added.