A Central Industrial Security Force head constable allegedly shot a 17-year-old boy dead in Delhi’s Shahdara for entering a wedding celebration uninvited in search of food, PTI reported on Sunday.

The head constable allegedly shot the boy on Saturday near a community centre at DDA market in Mansarovar Park. The official, identified as Madan Gopal Tiwari and posted in Uttar Pradesh’s Kanpur, was among those who attended the wedding, the Hindustan Times reported.

He has been arrested on charges of murder.

A preliminary investigation into the incident suggested that the shooting was the result of an altercation between the minor and the head constable at the venue, an unidentified police officer told the news agency.

“We got to know that the victim came to eat food after he witnessed a function was going on,” PTI quoted the police officer as saying. “He jumped a wall and was initially stopped by some locals.”

The officer claimed that Tiwari, who was also there, pulled out a gun and shot him dead in a fit of anger.

Shahdara Deputy Commissioner of Police Prashant Gautam said that the minor, who was living in the New Modern area, was taken to a hospital but was declared dead. He said that the head constable has been taken in custody, and the pistol suspected to have been used in the shooting has been seized.

The accused was being interrogated to find out the sequence of events, the police said, adding that it was also being ascertained whether the weapon used in the incident was a service firearm or a personal one.

Following the incident, the father of the 17-year-old boy said that he did not know that his son had gone to the venue, the Hindustan Times reported.

“I was told later that my son and three other boys went to attend the procession,” the newspaper quoted him as saying. “They didn’t even enter the venue. They just wanted to dance or maybe eat some food. What was the need to kill him?”

He added: “…His friends told me he was near the horse when two men started hitting him and accused him of stealing.”