Bangalore: The Army has ordered a probe into the shooting of a college student , who died when guards shot him when he ‘intruded’ into a brigadier’s residence.
The probe will look into whether the guards could have handled the situation differently. Army guards shot dead Mohammed Mukkharam, a 20-year-old student who was drag racing, early Sunday for intruding into the house of a brigadier and trying to escape when asked to surrender, a senior police official said.
"The youth was shot by the sentry in the compound of Brigadier P S Ravindranath's house on the old airport road around 2 a.m. when he tried to jump the boundary wall instead of surrendering," Ulsoor area police inspector M.K. Thammaiah told IANS.
Brigadier Ravindranath is the commander of the army's Karnataka and Kerala sub-area.
The brigadier was present in the Flagstaff House with his family members when the incident happened, a defence spokesperson confirmed.
A bleeding Mukkharam was carried in a car to the St. Phelomena hospital in the early hours by two of his friends but he succumbed to the bullet injuries in stomach and abdomen.
The victim intruded into the brigadier's bungalow in the high-security defence area when the mobile police squad on the night beat chased him for speeding on a motorbike in a drag race with friends.
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