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Caught cheating in exam, BBA student shoots self at home

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26.01.2022

Indore: A 21-year-old student of Bachelors of Business Administration (BBA) allegedly shot himself at home in Indore’s Niranjanpur area on Tuesday afternoon.

The deceased, identified as Pravin Shukla, was reported to have taken the extreme step after being caught cheating during an examination on Tuesday, the police said. He studied at a private college. His family said that his mobile phone was seized by the college authorities.

Police said Pravin used a licenced weapon of his father, who is an assistant sub-inspector (traffic), to kill himself. “His classmates said he was caught cheating in the exam on Tuesday morning. He came home and shot himself with his father’s rifle,” station in-charge Indramani Patel told the media.

Pravin was living alone in the house for  the past year as his parents had moved out to Chhoti Paltan area. In CCTV footage of the society, the youth is seen coming back from college on a motorcycle at 11. 47am. He parks his bike and takes the stairs.

Deceased's brother-in-law, Dipendra Tripathi, who lives in the same township, said  that he used to come back from the college before noon and have lunch at their house. On Tuesday afternoon, when he did not come for lunch till 1pm, they tried calling him on his mobile phone, but nobody picked it up. Later, his wife (Pravin’s elder sister) went to check on him and found the gate locked from the inside. When he did not respond to the doorbell for long, she called her father to come with another key and they checked inside only to find him lying in a pool of blood in the bathroom. “The rifle along with ammunition was brought home during Diwali for puja,” Tripathi told TOI.