Student got gun to school, arrested

DANGER The 16 year-old claimed someone gave him the gun

A Class X student of a private senior secondary school has been arrested for illegally carrying a country-made revolver to his school on Tuesday.

Gurgaon police recovered the revolver and a live cartridge from the 16-year-old student who carried the weapon in his class today.

The gun was found tucked in under his waist belt when a police team from Farrukhnagar police station raided the school following a tip-off this afternoon.

But the boy has claimed that he had no intention of using the gun and that someone from his village, Khera Khurrampur, had given him the gun on Monday evening to keep for a few days.

"One Bijender Singh gave me the gun on Monday evening . He was on a motorbike and just gave it to me and sped away," the boy told HT.

"But before that he said he would take it back after a couple of days. He also warned me against telling anyone. I carried it to the class just like that and have no amenity against anyone. I had no intention of using it on anyone," he added.

Authorities of Dhankar Senior Secondary School , who refused to speak with the media, reportedly told the police that the boy had been absent for the last six days and attended the school on Tuesday.

This is the third such incident in Gurgaon of a student carrying a revolver inside the school premises.

In August last year, a class IX student of a school of an Old Delhi Road was caught carrying an air-pistol in his school bag.

In December 2007, one class VIII student killed his classmate on the campus in Sector 45 with an imported pistol (.32 mm Harrison USA) belonging to his father's friend.

"We raided the school around 12.30 p.m. and asked the principal to call the student to his room. Escorted by one of our staffers in plain clothes, a school staff accompanied the student to his room," said SHO Jaswant Singh.

"As we frisked him and pulled his sweater up, we recovered a country-made revolver tucked under his waist belt."

He said the student was arrested on charges of illegally carrying a firearm without license under Indian Arms Act.

Singh also claimed that there was definite information of the boy was carrying an illegal firearm some months ago but the police could not recover it from his possession then.

The boy's father died some time back and his mother is a homemaker. His elder sister is married while the younger one studies in the same school in Class VIII.