Gunman calls student outside home to talk, shoots him dead in Faridabad

GURGAON: A 19-year-old undergraduate student of architecture, who came home over the weekend to celebrate Rakshabandhan, was shot dead by an unknown assailant at the gate of his house in Faridabad while his siblings sat inside.
Two men reached Arun's house in Adarsh Nagar around 12.30pm, and one of them called him outside to talk.
Arun's sister, who had tied a rakhi on his wrist just hours before, and his elder brother were inside the house when the incident was reported.
Police said a case was filed under BNS Sections 103 (1) for murder and under the Arms Act, and they have launched a manhunt to trace the accused.
Cops said Arun, who studied at a college in Rohtak's Sampla, reached his house in the NCR city on Saturday evening.
On Monday, after completing rakhi celebrations, Arun's parents went out of the house for some work. He was sitting in the living room with his sister Renu and brother Ajay.
According to the complaint, when the unknown man asked Arun to talk to him outside the house, the student said he can talk in front of his siblings. But the man insisted that he come out.
"Arun went to the gate with him, and after a few minutes, we heard a gunshot. Arun came inside the house holding his chest and said the man had shot him. He then collapsed. With the help of my uncle, Lakhmi Chand, I shifted Arun to a local private hospital where he was declared dead," Ajay told police.
Ajay said he did not know the two men who fled on a bike.
"My brother was playing a video game on his phone before the incident," Ajay said.
Adarsh Nagar inspector Amit Kumar said that prima facie, two unknown men were involved in the case and one of them shot Arun from close range. "Our teams have verified CCTV footage near Arun's house. We are working out the leads to zero in on the offenders," the inspector said.
According to cops, Arun's father Karan Singh Gautam is a registered medical practitioner and his mother Bimmlesh is a homemaker. Ajay works at a private firm in Delhi and Renu is a lab technician in Faridabad. The family has been in the city since 1997.