Both students were first year law classmates aged around 19 to 20 years, police said, as panic broke out among other students who fled the room immediately after the gunshots were heard echoing across campus.
The Gujarat government has taken over the Seventh-day Adventist School in Ahmedabad following the August 2025 stabbing death of Hindu student Nayan Santani by a Muslim peer. A probe revealed rule violations, poor management, and minority status issues. The District Education Officer now administers for over 10,000 students; no new admissions allowed.
The arrested girl has been identified as Kirti Sharma. "Shoot Mamata Banerjee like Indira Gandhi. If you can't do it, I wouldn't disappoint," Kirti Sharma was quoted as saying in one of her posts.
Students are holding massive protests in Delhi's Old Rajender Nagar area over the deaths of the three UPSC aspirants in a flooded basement of Rau's IAS Study Circle.