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Two boys injured as schoolmate shoots at them with airgun

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A brilliant student, he was upset at being bullied

No case registered as no one has filed a complaint
The offender had been irregular at school for the last one month

— Photo: K. Murali Kumar

HOME ALONE: A view of the terrace where the juvenile offender used to live and practise shooting.

BANGALORE: Two students of Class 10 of a private school were injured after their schoolmate shot at them with an airgun near the school premises here on Saturday.

Deputy Commissioner of Police (South) S. Ravi said Charan and Arun, who were hit by pellets, suffered minor injuries. While Arun was wounded in the thigh, Charan was grazed on the arm. The incident took place at about 1 p.m. when they were going home from their school.

Aimed from the terrace

Mr. Ravi said the offender, who did not attend classes on Saturday, shot at the two boys from the second floor terrace of his house, which is situated a few metres away from the school. The offender is a Class 10 student in the English-medium stream of the same school. He was angry with the two boys from the Kannada-medium stream as they had been bullying him for the past month, the officer told The Hindu.

Eyewitnesses said the boy shot at a group of boys who were on the main road. Pointing to a hole in his shirt, Abhishek, who was in the group, claimed that a pellet had pierced his shirt.

Inspection

An inspection of the scene revealed that the juvenile offender had taken aim through the branches of a tree passing over the terrace. The witnesses said the boy threw the airgun on the terrace of a neighbouring house after the attack.

According to a teacher from the school, the offender, who is academically brilliant, had been irregular to school for the last one month.

Mr. Ravi said the boy was a good shooter and had been practising with the airgun for some time.

This correspondent, who visited his house, found that the 16-year-old boy had set up a one-foot by one-foot target on the terrace which had pellet marks on it. The boy used to study and sleep by himself inside a small tent on the terrace.

Neighbours said the boy’s father was an engineer and mother a doctor.

Mr. Ravi said as no one had filed a complaint, the police had not registered a case.

The two injured boys, also residents of the same locality, were treated at Victoria Hospital and sent home.

The school authorities refused to comment stating that the incident had taken place outside the premises after school hours.

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