Date:22/04/2007 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2007/04/22/stories/2007042203600600.htm

Andhra Pradesh

Student hurt in college shooting in A.P.

Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD: Fight for supremacy between student groups took an ugly turn when a junior student shot at his senior on the premises of Deccan Engineering College at Darussalam in Hyderabad on Saturday.

Mukarram Ali Siddiqui, third year engineering student, sustained five bullet wounds in the incident — the first-ever on any college premises in Hyderabad in recent past. He is being operated upon at a corporate hospital. Doctors said his condition was critical.

The revolver was a licensed weapon and owned by father of the accused student.The police dismissed reports that the shooting was a result of ragging.