India, Feb. 17 -- Celebratory firing during a wedding procession allegedly left a two-year-old boy dead at Aghapur village in Noida's Sector 49 late on Sunday, a police officer said. The boy was in his father's lap when someone in the procession fired in the air around 9pm as it passed through Aghapur village road and locals gathered on their terraces.

The officer said the boy was hit in his head. "He was rushed to a nearby hospital where doctors declared him dead." Police said the boy's family and neighbours alerted police and people in the procession which continued.

Anuj Kumar Saini, a local police officer, said a case has been under Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita's Section 105 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder) and the Arms Act ag...