goodboy_mentor wrote:As per law there is no need to run away or fire warning shot provided the right of private defense gets invoked as mentioned from Sections 96 to 106 Indian Penal Code along with the restrictions mentioned therein.
Yes , maybe ( and I am saying maybe because I am not well versed with the Sections of the Indian Penal Code as you are ) firing a warning shot is not mandatory by Law , but it's never a bad idea to fire warning shot to intimidate the enemy/ attacker to retreat . My opinion of course ; others may differ .
It's just like keeping a fire extinguisher at home , even if it's not made mandatory by the Law .
Okay this is something I would like to add to this thread . This is what I read in the newspapers . I am providing the text in Quotes as well as Links
“Two men pinned me down and started strangulating me and tearing apart my clothes. I shouted and the guard came running to help. The gun was lying under our landlord’s (Ratan Lal Nahata) bed and the guard took the gun and began firing. He kept firing and chased them out of my room to the courtyard. The courtyard was full of bouncers in black clothes and there were women from a security agency,” Mamta said early this morning.
“Charo taraf se dhaam dhaam dhaam dhaam karne lage (there were sounds of gunfire from everywhere). I hid myself inside the house and the police told me later that some people were killed. I don’t know how many,” she added.
The police were initially treating Mamta as a victim but decided to arrest her after watching the footage from closed-circuit TV cameras that her own school had installed following an earlier trespass attempt in September. Nahata, who had staked claim to the property, was then seen sitting with a gun across his lap, guarding the plot.
“Footage from the four CCTV cameras installed on the premises show the woman running around with a gun and randomly opening fire. The first shot was fired at 4.43am. We detained her immediately after watching the footage and later arrested her after one of the private guards lodged a complaint,” said Murali Dhar, the DCP.
A senior officer said the footage suggested that she had herself torn her clothes. Till late tonight, the police had not charged any of the alleged trespassers with attempt to rape or assault.
The police said Mamta used to stay in a room on the same premises. Nahata lives in another part of the compound.
According to the police, the principal called up several friends and acquaintances after she found some of the men in black clothes standing on the school premises.
“The CCTV footage shows the unarmed guards running for cover inside one of the rooms of the school which has wooden walls. However, she kept running from one end to another and kept firing, aiming at the room,” said Pallab Kanti Ghosh, joint commissioner of police (crime).
The footage, the police claimed, shows Mamta and Pappu exchanging guns while running in the courtyard. One CCTV clip shows Pappu going very close to one of the classrooms and firing at a trespasser who was hiding inside. It is, however, unclear whose shots killed the duo.
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The nature of the bullet wounds that killed two recruits of a security agency at 9A Short Street suggests they were shot from “close range”, a hypothesis that investigators are trying to tie up with CCTV footage to establish the crime.
Prasenjit Dey and Pikloo Acharyaa were both fatally shot in the head while their colleague Kaushik Auddy was hospitalised after taking a bullet in his eye during school principal Mamta Agarwal’s alleged retaliation to a trespass early on Monday.
“CCTV footage showing more than one shooter aiming at targets from different locations have made it confusing to ascertain who killed whom. But the nature of wounds has made our work a little easier,” said an officer of the homicide department of Calcutta police.
The skull of one of the two persons who died in the incident was blown off. The other man had a gaping wound in the head.
According to a preliminary investigation, the distance between the victims and the shooter(s) would not have been more than four feet, the officer said.
The police know that establishing the exact sequence of events and who shot who is crucial to proving the murder charge against Mamta and the two guards employed by her.
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Maybe this is why the Police have charged Mamta Agarwal with charge of murder .
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