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

PATNA: A six-year-old pre-primary scholar of a Bihar faculty 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 similar faculty in Supaul district’s Triveniganj, took away his son and the weapon after being knowledgeable of the taking pictures.Each have been untraceable since.
Triveniganj SDPO Bipin Kumar stated the injured kid’s kin vandalised the college and blocked the city’s foremost highway till police intervened. The boy is out of hazard, he stated.
Investigators dismissed hypothesis concerning the taking pictures 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 advised police that he had nothing in opposition to the junior who fired the weapon,” Kumar stated.
“Prima facie, the bullet was fired mistakenly. Extra can be identified as soon as we hint father and youngster,” the SDPO added.