Class 9 student held with pistol inside Odisha school classroom

A Class 9 student of a government high school in Odisha’s Kendrapara district was detained Friday after he was found carrying a locally made pistol to the classroom, triggering panic.

The incident occurred at Korua government high school under Kudanagari police limits in Kendrapara district.

Police said a case has been registered under the Arms Act on a complaint from the school headmaster. The pistol has been sent for forensic analysis to a Bhubaneswar laboratory, and police are probing how the schoolboy obtained the weapon.

“The boy has been kept at a correctional home as he is a juvenile. He is being questioned to find out how the student came into possession of the firearm. But the firearm was not loaded. We have been questioning him but he has been changing his statements,” Inspector Arabinda Sarana Mohanty, who is probing the case, told The Indian Express.