Bengaluru: Class 10 boy flaunted airgun from car, let off with warning
TNN | Updated: Mar 9, 2019, 07:44 IST
Class 10 boy flaunted airgun BENGALURU: The passenger who brandished a ‘gun’ from the window of a car moving on the Bengaluru-Mysuru highway on Monday, the video of which went viral on Thursday, has been identified as a class 10 student from Mysuru. The weapon he waved was an airgun, Ramanagara police said.
The video showed the front-seat passenger of a Maruti Esteem headed in the direction of Mysuru displaying the weapon.
Police identified the car owner as a businessman from Mysuru. In no time, cops landed at the doorstep of the businessman from Mandimohalla only to learn that the “gun-wielding” passenger was his 15-year-old son. The boy confessed to have flaunted the airgun. He told cops he had preparatory exams on Friday.
“We seized the car and the airgun. Asking the boy and his father to accompany us, we arrived in Ramanagara on Thursday night and took an undertaking from the boy before warning them and letting them go. The car and the weapon will be released after the court’s permission,” an investigator said.
According to the boy, he was simply flaunting the airgun. “Accompanying his uncle to a relative’s house in Bengaluru, he had carried the airgun with him. On the return journey, he flaunted the weapon without any provocation or intention. We found that he never pointed it towards anyone or threatened anyone with it,” police said.
The boy’s uncle was also apologetic. “The airgun was meant to shoo away parrots and birds. For some reason, the boy carried it to Bengaluru that day,” police quoted his uncle as saying.
The video showed the front-seat passenger of a Maruti Esteem headed in the direction of Mysuru displaying the weapon.
Police identified the car owner as a businessman from Mysuru. In no time, cops landed at the doorstep of the businessman from Mandimohalla only to learn that the “gun-wielding” passenger was his 15-year-old son. The boy confessed to have flaunted the airgun. He told cops he had preparatory exams on Friday.
“We seized the car and the airgun. Asking the boy and his father to accompany us, we arrived in Ramanagara on Thursday night and took an undertaking from the boy before warning them and letting them go. The car and the weapon will be released after the court’s permission,” an investigator said.
According to the boy, he was simply flaunting the airgun. “Accompanying his uncle to a relative’s house in Bengaluru, he had carried the airgun with him. On the return journey, he flaunted the weapon without any provocation or intention. We found that he never pointed it towards anyone or threatened anyone with it,” police said.
The boy’s uncle was also apologetic. “The airgun was meant to shoo away parrots and birds. For some reason, the boy carried it to Bengaluru that day,” police quoted his uncle as saying.
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