Four arrested for B-school shooting in Ghaziabad

GHAZIABAD: A day after a 20-year-old woman was accidentally shot at on the campus of a business school in Dasna, police on Thursday said the prime suspect along with three of his aides had been arrested.
Navtej Singh (21), who allegedly fired the shot that was aimed at another boy he had a tiff with but struck Shivangi Agarwal, is a law student who lives with his family in Kazipura.According to police, all four accused, including Singh, are in their early 20s,and either students of different colleges nearby or fresh graduates searching for jobs.
The three other boys have been identified as Himanshu and Varun, also from Kazipura, and Gaurav, a resident of Govindpuram.
Shivangi, a second-year BBA student, was struck on her back while she was walking to the exam hall. She was operated upon later in the day and is now out of danger.
"We have recovered a .32-bore pistol, which was used in the shooting, from Navtej. It was a countrymade weapon," Rajkumar Yadav, SHO of the Masuri police station, said.
Doctors at the private hospital in Ghaziabad, where Shivangi is undergoing treatment, told TOI on Thursday that the condition of the girl was stable though she was still under observation in the ICU.
The management of Inmantec College, where the shooting happened on Thursday, denied that it was a result of a security lapse on their part. The shot was fired from outside the gates.
"Though we lodged a police complaint, we won't be able to take any disciplinary action against all those named as accused because they are not from our college. We have increased our security following the incident. A gunman has been deployed at the entry gate, apart from an additional guard. We have taken adequate steps to ensure that the conduct of examinations is smooth," Deepak Saxena, registrar, Inmantec College, told TOI.