The
protests outside New Delhi's Jamia Millia Islamia University on Thursday started out small and relatively low-key - another show of anger by students who oppose a citizenship law they say discriminates against Muslims.
Waving the small handgun in the air, he taunted the demonstrators, and as both
protesters and
police converged towards him to try and calm the situation, he fired a single shot at a man later identified as Shadab Farooq.
"As the protests started, there was no immediate threat so I was moving towards the police line and it was just like a regular day," said Danish Siddiqui, Reuters' chief photographer in
India who took several pictures of the gunman.