Overview
- The shooting occurred Thursday night at a wedding in Khanpur village in Bulandshahr’s Chola area, killing 36-year-old Dharmendra Bhati.
- Police identified the suspected shooter as the bride’s cousin, Sugreev (also reported as Sugreev Solanki), who used a licensed pistol and fled.
- An FIR for murder was filed on the family’s complaint, with SP City Shankar Prasad saying teams are working to arrest the accused and seize the weapon.
- Bhati was taken to a Noida hospital and died, and a postmortem was conducted on Friday, according to officials.
- Locals said the firing was part of wedding rituals and that Bhati was seated directly in front when he was hit, and the investigation is ongoing.