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A Class 8 student stabbed his classmate after a quarrel in Balasinor, Gujarat, while similar violent incidents occurred in Ahmedabad and Rudrapur, police said. Victims are stable.
A Class 8 student stabbed his classmate over a dispute in Gujarat(Representational image/PTI)
A Class 8 student allegedly stabbed and injured his classmate following a dispute outside a government-run school in Gujarat’s Mahisagar district, police said on Friday.
The incident took place on Thursday after school hours near the gate of a primary school in Balasinor town, news agency PTI quoted an official as saying. The victim sustained multiple injuries after being attacked with a sharp object.
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“Based on a complaint given by the victim’s father, we have registered an FIR against the accused juvenile. The victim is currently undergoing treatment at a hospital, and his condition is stable,” Superintendent of Police Jaydeepsinh Jadeja said.
The injured boy’s father stated that the attack stemmed from a minor quarrel. “My son’s classmate got angry over some minor issue and stabbed him with a small knife. My son sustained stab wounds on his back, abdomen, and near his shoulder,” the father said, reported PTI.
The accused student has been booked under sections 115 (voluntarily causing hurt) and 118 (voluntarily causing hurt or grievous hurt by dangerous weapons or harmful means) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, the SP added.
The incident occurred just days after a Class 10 student was fatally stabbed in a similar attack outside a private school in Ahmedabad.
The boy, a student of the Seventh Day Adventist School in the Khokhra area, succumbed to his injuries on Tuesday night after being attacked near the school gate. Screenshot of students’ chat after chilling Ahmedabad school murder is doing rounds on social media since.
In a separate case in Rudrapur, Uttarakhand, a Class 9 student allegedly opened fire on his physics teacher inside the classroom on Wednesday. According to police, the boy was angry after being slapped by the teacher two days earlier.
The teenager has been taken into custody and will be presented before the Juvenile Justice Board, said Abay Pratap Singh, Additional Superintendent of Police (Kashipur).
The officer added that during questioning, the boy told police he procured a country-made pistol to take revenge. The teacher, who was hit on the shoulder, was taken to a private hospital and is out of danger.
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Gujarat, India, India
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