new delhi a 17yearold girls ride in a mercedes with two male friends ended in a grim tragedy on tuesday evening when one of the friends allegedly shot her dead with a licenced pistol kept in the glove box of the luxury sedan police said the victim simran had an argument with the accused shubham 23 while on the way back the provocation appears to be her call to another friend nitin 20 who arrived on a scooter and witnessed simran being shot in front of her house in najafgarh west delhisimrans family too heard the gunshot and rushed out to find her bleeding on the rear seat of the mercedes c 320 the shot was fired when the cars owner yogesh 35 had stepped out to relieve himself both shubham and nitin are abscondingnitin was simrans close friend before her friendship with shubham blossomed some six months ago she had passed her class xii exam last year and wanted to join an llb course while preparing for civil services her family saidon tuesday she had left home around 2 pm to buy an iphone for shubham telling her parents that she was going to a birthday party she accompanied shubham and yogesh to a mall in rajouri garden the three had lunch at a restobar and drove to a market near dwarka where they shopped till 730pm simrans mother called her around that time asking her to returnher mother said simran called around 930pm saying she would be home in 10 minutes she was crying and told us that she was in trouble with someone right outside the house by the time we reached outside there was a gunshot after which two youths fled the scene said the girls father anand kumarhearing the gunshot yogesh rushed back to the car and found his 9 mm pistol lying on the front seat simrans parents and yogesh drove her to a hospital where she died during treatment the bullet had pierced a lung and died in hospitalcops have recovered the pistol from the car seized the vehiclewatch delhi 17yearold girl shot dead in najafgarh probe on