Retired Soldier Injures Student in Road Rage Shooting | Meerut News

MEERUT: A retired soldier has been accused of ‘attempted murder” and under the Arms Act for allegedly drawing a gun and firing at a minibus carrying 18 students of KCC Institute of Management and Technology in Greater Noida. He injured one of them when the bullet grazed the student’s stomach. The group was returning from a trip to Mussoorie when the incident took place on NH 58 in Meerut’s Pallavpuram area on Sunday evening.
It all started when food delivery man Anirudh Sharma confronted the accused, Nitin Sirohi (40), currently employed as a security guard in the city, for reckless driving. “But he pulled out a gun and started attacking me,” Sharma told TOI. Sirohi even tried to throw Sharma off a bridge.
The former Jawan shot at the students when they tried to help the courier
When the students saw the commotion and stopped the bus to try to help the delivery person, an angry Sirohi turned on them, storming into the bus, smashing its window and brandishing a gun. A video shot by one of the terrified students allegedly shows shattered window panes and blood stains on the seat. There are frantic screams and cries for help in the background.
“Our attempt to help the food delivery man enraged him. He pointed a gun at us and we ran back into the bus for safety. But he followed us, broke all the windows and fired shots, one of which hit our classmate Hriday Gupta. We screamed in fear and begged for mercy, but Sirohi continued to rage,” said Vansh Maheshwari, a BBA student. Gupta, who was treated for his injuries, is no longer in danger.
Another student, Harsh Singh Rajput, said, “He hit some of us. I suffered a minor head injury.”
SP (city) Ayush Vikram said, “We have arrested the ex-serviceman and a case has been registered against him under BNS sections 109 (attempt to murder), 115 (2) (voluntarily causing hurt), 352 (intentional insult), 324 (4) (wrongful loss and damage) and the relevant sections of the Weapons Act.”
Meanwhile, a senior university official, who did not wish to be named, clarified that “this was not an official university tour, which usually involves the use of multiple vehicles and staff supervision. It appears to have been a private trip organized by students, of which the university is unaware.”