Phulpur Teen Injured in Cheek While Filming Reel With Illegal Firearm

A 16-year-old boy was injured in the cheek at Behwariya village under Phulpur police station limits on Saturday, 5 September 2026, around 1 pm, while filming a social-media reel with friends using an illegal firearm, police said. He was first taken to the community health centre at Pindra and then referred to the Trauma Centre at Banaras Hindu University. The Commissionerate response on the spot included the ACP Pindra, the Phulpur station house officer and staff from the Kathiraon outpost.

The injured minor is a Kathiraon resident. His name is Nitin Chauhan; it appears once here because it is the identifier in the police tip, and it will not be repeated for colour. Child-sensitive practice on this desk means the lead stays on age, locality and the mechanism of injury, not on a dramatised portrait of a teenager with a gun.

Police said the firearm discharged while the reel was being shot. Two boys were taken into custody for questioning. The source of the illegal weapon and any nearby CCTV were under check. No courtroom finding is claimed. The Saturday facts are an illegal firearm in adolescent hands, a cheek injury during a reel, a referral chain from Pindra to BHU Trauma, and an active police inquiry.

Behwariya sits inside Phulpur’s rural belt. Kathiraon is the injured boy’s home pin. The outpost named with the response team is Kathiraon. That triangle — Behwariya scene, Kathiraon residence and outpost, Phulpur station — is the geography. It is not being stretched into a city-centre crime story.

Illegal firearms in teenage peer groups are a policing problem before they are a social-media problem. The reel is how the afternoon was framed by the boys; the injury is why the afternoon became a police file. This copy will not reconstruct dialogue, invent a dare, or describe wound detail beyond the cheek strike police already put on record.

ACP Pindra’s presence signals that the Commissionerate treated the call as more than a routine village hurt brief. Phulpur SHO and Kathiraon outpost staff completing the on-scene team is the local station answer. Two boys in questioning is the custody line available Saturday. A chargesheet, a recovery memo for the weapon, or a medical bulletin beyond the referral was not part of the tip set used here.

Parents, schools and local thanas have heard this warning before: borrowed or illegal weapons and phone cameras are a dangerous mix. Saturday’s Behwariya injury is one more instance where that mix left a minor in a trauma queue. The desk’s job is to report the injury and the police steps without turning a child into spectacle.

Until Phulpur police close the weapon-source check and the questioning of the two boys, the public record is limited. A 16-year-old Kathiraon resident hurt in the cheek at Behwariya while a reel was filmed with an illegal firearm; CHC Pindra to BHU Trauma; ACP Pindra and Phulpur police on scene; two boys questioned. That is the Saturday file, stated plain.