News Coutesy:rediff
A First Year BCom student at the city's Baldwin College, was shot dead by army personnel in Bengalaru after he allegedly entered a military campus and refused to surrender.
The incident occured early on Sunday morning.
Police sources told rediff.com that the student, along with another boy, was racing his motorcycle on MG Road on Sunday morning, about 1 am.
The police tried to stop the boys, without success.
After a chase, the student, apparently in a bid to evade the police, entered the army campus in the MG Road-Ulsoor area.
Army personnel, who spotted the boy, asked him to identify himself and surrender. When he refused to do so, they opened fire. The boy, later identified as Mohammed Mukram, was rushed to hospital, but he succumbed to his injuries.
PTI adds: The student had allegedly engaged in 'wheeling' (riding a motorcycle on its rear wheel) at high speed in the wee hours and was confronted by the police.
As he left his bike and started fleeing, the police gave him chase, police sources said, adding that he then jumped into the compound of FlagStaff House, where a brigadier was staying, on the Airport Road in a bid to hide at around 1 am.
A defence ministry statement said after a thorough search, the sentries on guard sensed the presence of somebody on top of the brigadier's house.
'Before the guards could apprehend the intruder, he jumped down and fled towards the compound wall facing the main road,' the statement said.
'When the intruder did not heed the armed guards' warning to surrender, the intruder was fired upon. The police are investigating the case,' it added.
This is a very very tragic incident.A young life is lost in the most unfortunate circumstances.These are very difficult times for our country.After all the terrorist attacks in many of the Indian cities and particularly after the Mumbai terror attack,where there was a total failure of intelligence,the security forces are rightly not taking any chances.The army cannot be faulted for shooting down an intruder.The tragedy is,in this case the intruder was not a terrorist but a student.
It's high time all citizens,particularly youngsters be more alert and more careful.We should avoid suspicious movements and whenever a situation arises when a security guard stops us or asks for identification,we should immediately comply.Security guards are also human and they also will be afraid if any one approaches them and fails to identify,especially during late hours.
It's important to have some sort of awareness campaign to prevent these sort of tragic incidents from occuring.Other wise more innocent people could be victim of such unfortunate circumstances.
Heart goes out to the family of the student who got killed.It's an irrepairable loss and hope the family will find strength to hold on and may his soul rest in peace.Nothing more to say.Really sad..
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