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Greater Noida Shooting Linked to Classmates’ Social Media Dispute, Police Say

Police now link the gunfire to a dispute between classmates over a social media comment.

Overview

  • Police say a minor student and his friends opened fire at a classmate and his family near Gate No. 1 of Omicron 1 in the Kasna area on Saturday evening.
  • Three vehicles were hit and windows shattered, and there were no gunshot injuries reported, according to initial accounts.
  • An FIR at Kasna police station names five identified and several unidentified suspects under BNS sections including attempt to murder, with teams formed to make arrests.
  • The complainant alleges the suspects abducted and assaulted his uncle and vandalised cars, and a widely shared video shows bullet damage to a Scorpio.
  • Officials say the parties knew each other as schoolmates, and local reports earlier identified a Bharatiya Kisan Union leader’s grandson among those targeted while the source of the firearms is under probe.