Pulled up, Chandigarh boy shoots principal dead with a gun

[Varun]

CHANDIGARH: A Class XII boy walked into his principal's office on Saturday morning and shot her+ three times with his father's licensed revolver. The principal, 47-year-old Ritu Chhabra of Swami Vivekanand School at Yamunanagar in Haryana, succumbed to her wounds in hospital later in the day.

The 18-year-old assailant is believed to have been upset over Chhabra pulling him up for picking up fights with schoolmates and teachers and for his poor academic record.

After shooting the principal, the boy tried to run out of the school but was overpowered by parents and locals just outside the campus. A large number of parents were in the school to attend a parent-teacher meeting.
Besides booking the boy for murder, police have also arrested his father, a prominent moneylender of Yamunanagar, whose .32 bore Webley Scott revolver was used by the boy to kill Chhabra.

"On Saturday morning, the boy left home after telling his parents that he was going to his coaching class but landed up at the school instead," said Yamunanagar SP Rajesh Kalia. "He went into the principal's office at around 11.30am on the pretext of getting a form signed. At the time, Chhabra was alone in the cabin. The boy first walked out and then immediately went back in and fired four shots at Chhabra. While two bullets hit both her arms, a third hit her in the chest. The fourth bullet brushed past her head."

Preliminary investigation revealed that the boy shot her from just 10 feet away. The school staff and the parents rushed Chhabra to a multi-specialty hospital run by the school management. She died three hours later due to excessive bleeding.

Kalia also said Chhabra taught economics to commerce stream students in the school and that the boy had scored poorly in the pre-board exams. As he had not deposited practical files on time he had gone to take her permission to allow him to submit the files late. The principal refused to accept his files.

This is the third case of a major crime being committed in a school in three months. In September last year, a seven-year-old boy was murdered, allegedly by his senior, in a school in Gurgaon's Bhondsi. On January 16, a Class VII girl in Lucknow allegedly stabbed a Class I boy in the stomach and the chest in the school's toilet. The boy survived.
Sources in the school told TOI that the boy was weak in studies and would not hesitate to argue with his teachers over petty matters. Chhabra had reprimanded him on several occasions, in class as well as in her office.

"The body has been sent for post-mortem. Both the boy and his father are being interrogated. The father has been booked under sections of the Arms Act and for negligence," Kalia added.

Kamal Kamboj, the president of Swami Vivekananda Educational Society, which manages the school, said it was not true that she was harsh with students. "Our principal was shot and killed only because she had warned the student," said Kamboj.

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What a story. Thought it was something in the US when I first read the headline, but no.

 

[Pakistanian]

This would never happen in America, we're not an uncivilized country like India.

 

[big_gamer007]

He’s 18 can spend rest of his pathetic life rotting in jail.. Case of bad parenting..

 

[Syed1]

This is what happens when parents tell their kids that they are the best, or nothing is wrong with them. The kids can't handle it when people show them their reality. He needs to be sent to jail for a long long time.

 

[Abdul]

Savage.

 

[Abdul]

This would never happen in America, we're not an uncivilized country like India.

What about troubled states like Alabama? You can't rule out the rednecks.

 

[DW44]

This would never happen in America, we're not an uncivilized country like India.

Columbine, Sandy Hook, Virginia Tech? Your schools literally double as shooting ranges.

 

[Rafa]

This is what happens when parents tell their kids that they are the best, or nothing is wrong with them. The kids can't handle it when people show them their reality. He needs to be sent to jail for a long long time.

More like a Rich Spoiled Brat taking this anger out on the victim. Not case of some innocent kid under pressure.

 

[msb314]

What about troubled states like Alabama? You can't rule out the rednecks.

I think he is being sarcastic...

 

[msb314]

Very sad to say the least...

No respect or discipline amongst kids nowadays.

 

[Waseem]

It happened at our school (DPS) years ago, one guy was repeatedly asked to bring his parents for meeting.

He came to principal's house after hours one day and asked him to come out to meet his parents, shot him as soon as principal came out but thankfully he survived the attack.

 

[hafeezrocks]

It happened at our school (DPS) years ago, one guy was repeatedly asked to bring his parents for meeting.

He came to principal's house after hours one day and asked him to come out to meet his parents, shot him as soon as principal came out but thankfully he survived the attack.

A few examples like this and Bullying teachers will have fear on their mind.

 

[www787]

This would never happen in America, we're not an uncivilized country like India.

Has happened and will continue to happen in US.

 

[Madplayer]

This is what happens when parents tell their kids that they are the best, or nothing is wrong with them. The kids can't handle it when people show them their reality. He needs to be sent to jail for a long long time.

Whats bad in telling the child there is nothing wrong with him? The worst thing one could do to a kid is tell him that there is something wrong with him.

I think the issue here is that Parents need to teach their kids how to take criticism. Prepare them for it mentally that everyone wont agree with their ways always and its the same for everyone. Teach them to evaluate criticism rather than react violently to it. Talk to them about the consequences of rash actions.

 

[Varun]

It happened at our school (DPS) years ago, one guy was repeatedly asked to bring his parents for meeting.

You studied at a Delhi Public School!?

 

[Waseem]

You studied at a Delhi Public School!?

Divisional Public School