Overview
- The shooting occurred around 1 pm on the Co‑operative Inter College grounds in Pipraich, and the student was declared dead at the scene.
- Police identified the victim as 17‑year‑old Class 11 student Sudhir Bharti from a village in the Pipraich area.
- Investigators say a recent quarrel over a mobile‑status post is the suspected motive, with the assailant confronting him on the playground.
- Two suspects are in custody, others are on the run, an FIR under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita lists four named and three unidentified accused, and police teams are conducting raids.
- Reports vary on whether multiple motorcycle‑borne attackers were involved, but eyewitnesses say a country‑made pistol was used, the school was shut temporarily, and extra forces were deployed after tensions and vandalism in the village.