The stray bullet menace from the firing range of 39 Gorkha Training Centre (GTC), Varanasi continues to create havoc in adjoining villages like Pissure, Danialpur, Bhagwanpur, Kadipur, Indupur etc, following recent incident in Pissure village under Shivpur Police Station.
According to Haricharan, a resident from Pissure village, on 25 August 2010 at around 3 pm a bullet coming from firing range of 39 GTC hit his daughter Suman aged about 14 years old on her chest, while the victim was playing at her door. According to Haricharan there were other bullets came from firing range of 39 GTC, Two bullets, close to his house, have been found and collecte by him.
According to Haricharn, next day on 26 August, he took his daughter to a private hospital for X-ray. After the X-ray the bullet was found trapped inside the victim's chest and the incident was reported to the Shivpur Police Station on the same day in the afternoon. After registering an FIR regarding the incident, the police of Shivpur Police Station took the girl to Dindayal hospital, Pandeypur, Varanasi and got her admitted in the hospital for the medical treatment. Today at around 11.30 am after an operation the bullet was removed from the victim's chest but it would be too early to suppose that the girl is out of danger.
Peoples Vigilance Committee on Human Rights (PVCHR), a local NGO has reported that the cases of stray bullets from the firing range of the 39 GTC have been causing grave injuries and deaths to villagers and cattle for over last 25 years, despite that fact that these villages fall far away from the declared acquired range of the Army. The chronology of stray bullets incidents is attached with this write up.
It ironic to note that each time the GTC authorities have denied the incidents alleging that no report has ever been lodged with the police. The police on the other hand has showed each time after an incident of stray bullet indifferent attitudes as far as the remedy to a victim is concerned.
