Noida: Teen who left house after dad’s scolding found dead

NOIDA: A 14-year-old boy who left his house on August 13 after being scolded by his father, has been found dead. A gunshot wound was found in his head and police suspect that he shot himself with a pistol.
According to police, Rajat had a fight with his elder sister on August 13 after which his father Ombir scolded him. “Soon, he left the house and did not return. After waiting for hours, his parents launched a search for him and approached police when they failed to trace him,” a police officer said.
Rajat’s body was found lying in a field in Badalpur village, barely 50 metres from his house, on Thursday. A country-made pistol was found near it.
Badalpur SHO Dinesh Kumar told TOI that the teenager possibly sourced the pistol from somewhere and shot himself. Police, however, remain unclear about the source of the pistol and say that there is no criminal background of the father or the teenager.
“The father of the teenager works as a farmer and they have no criminal background. An FIR has been registered under the Arms Act and the source of the pistol will be investigated,” he said.
In another case, a 22-year-old B Tech (computer science) student allege-dly died by suicide in his rented accommodat-ion in the Janta flats of Greater Noida. Originally from Bulandshahr’s Shikarpur area, Rahul Sharma’s body was found hanging on Thursday.
However, the third-year student of Unitech College of Engineering has left behind no suicide note.
Rahul’s father Devendra Sharma, who was sub-inspector of UP Police, died some years ago. His mother Rekha Sharma is currently serving as a sub inspector in UP.
In February, Rahul was allegedly attacked by five people, who tried to pull him inside a car outside his college. An FIR was lodged in that case too.
Beta II SHO Rameshwar Kumar told TOI that the youth’s family took the body and no complaint has been given by them so far.