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In a shocking incident in Bihar’s Khagaria district, a 12-year-old boy was shot dead for allegedly plucking mangoes from an orchard. Satyam Kumar was reportedly shot in the head following a dispute. The boy was rushed to a nearby hospital where he was declared brought dead.
The boy was playing in Shergarh village and had reportedly entered the orchard in the locality to pluck mangoes. When the accused saw the boy picking mangoes, he got enraged and allegedly fired at him, reports NDTV.
Police have sent the body for post-mortem and investigations are underway.
Police claimed that initial investigations have found that it was the orchard owner, Ramashish Yadav, a resident of the same village, who had shot the boy dead in a fit of rage. According to Satyam's friends, when he was picking a few mangoes lying on the ground in the orchard, Yadav asked him to drop the mangoes and leave but when Satyam refused to do so, Yadav shot at him from close range, reports The New Indian Express.
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