Greater Noida, Feb. 25 -- Two waiters were shot and injured at a banquet hall during a wedding in Greater Noida on Sunday night when a man fired a gun in the air to mark the celebrations, police said, adding that the accused was arrested on Monday and booked on charges of attempt to murder.

"At 10pm on Sunday, a baarat came from Bisrakh to a banquet hall in Sakipura, Surajpur. When the families were about to sit for the dwarchar ceremony, a man from the bridegroom's side fired one or two rounds in the air at the instigation of his friends," said BS Vir Singh, assistant commissioner of police, Central Noida.

"It has not yet been confirmed how many rounds were fired, but a bullet passed through the neck of a waiter, identified as Santosh ...