An examinee of Bihar College Examination Board class 10 examination was killed and one other was critically injured throughout firing by one other examinee on NH 19 (GT Highway) close to Tata Motors Company below Dhaudand police station space of Rohtas district on Thursday night.
The sufferer and accused, all in age group of 15 to 17, have been college students of the identical highschool at Dehri and have been showing at school 10 board exams from the identical examination centre at Sasaram. (Consultant Picture)
The deceased was recognized as Amit Kumar and critically injured Sanjeet Kumar, each are residents of Shambhu Bigha village in Dehri Mufassil police station. They have been returning residence on an auto-rickshaw from the examination centre in Saint Anna Excessive College at Sasaram, police stated.
The sufferer and accused, all in age group of 15 to 17, have been college students of the identical highschool at Dehri and have been showing at school 10 board exams from the identical examination centre at Sasaram. The accused had fired to take revenge from a classmate who had bullied and assaulted him since lengthy however the bullets hit two harmless examinees that have been on the identical auto-rickshaw, Rohtas SP Raushan Kumar stated.
The scholar, who used to torment different classmates, had shaped a gaggle of aggressive college students and he was bullying and assaulting the accused, belonging to a poor and weak household, since they have been at school 9 in the identical highschool at Dehri.
“The accused came in contact with a person during his journey to Prayagraj in Maha Kumbh recently, who assured to provide him a pistol and bullets if he arranged for ₹25,000. The accused was sharp in studies. He earned the money from on-line trading in the share market and purchased the weapon,” SP Kumar stated.
On Wednesday, the accused was once more tortured and assaulted on the examination centre. Subsequent day, the accused introduced the pistol and bullets and hid at a spot earlier than getting into the examination centre.
After the exams obtained over, he took the weapon and reached close to the Tata Motors company on an auto rickshaw and waited for the scholar who used to torment him. At about 5.15pm, because the auto-rickshaw carrying them reached the spot, the accused opened fireplace on it. The scholar targetted for assault, escaped unharmed however the two harmless college students have been injured.
Amit was hit on the again whereas Sanjeet on leg. Each have been rushed to Narayan Medical Faculty and Hospital at Jamuhar by the police, the place Amit succumbed to the spinal twine harm, police stated.
The accused was arrested from his maternal uncle’s residence close to the place of prevalence at Karpurwa village. The nation made pistol used within the crime was recovered from behind the home. “CCTV footage near the place clearly showed that the accused alone was firing on the auto-rickshaw,” the SP stated.
Om Friday, some college students blocked the NH with the physique which was later handed over to the household by police after the post-mortem on Friday morning. However police chased them away and cleared the heavy visitors as a consequence of Maha Kumbh.
“Two cases had been registered, one against the accused under sections 103(1), 61(2), 109 and 3(5) of BNS for murder, attempt to murder and criminal conspiracy and section 27 of Arms Act and the other against the hooligans who blocked road and traffic and infringement in the duty of government officer,” Dhaudand SHO inspector Manoj Kumar stated.
Class 10 examinations by BSEB have begun in Bihar since February 17. Over 15 lakh college students are collaborating within the examination.