Greater Noida, Sept. 9 -- What began as an ordinary Tuesday morning in a private management institute located in Greater Noida, turned into a scene of shock and tragedy. A 22-year-old MBA student from Andhra Pradesh was allegedly found dead with a gunshot wound in his head, while his friend lay critically injured beside him in a locked room at a private management and technology institute in Knowledge Park 3, Hindustan Times reported, citing police officials.

A security guard of the institute made the grim discovery while he was on his routine rounds to switch off the lights, when he heard cries from the locked room.

Unable to enter, the guard alerted the hostel warden and climbed to the second-floor balcony, where he spotted the two st...