Two months after Pradyuman Thakur was found with his throat slit at a school near Delhi, the CBI says ,a student of Class 11 at the same school committed the murder.
Sources in the CBI say that the student they detained last night killed the younger child because he was academically weak and believed the school would postpone exams as a result of the crime.
A 16-year-old student of Ryan International School in Gurugram who wanted exams and a scheduled meeting between teachers and parents delayed is the prime accused in the murder of Class II student Pradhuman Thakur, the CBI said on Wednesday.
CBI spokesperson Abhishek Dayal said the Class XI student was detained on Tuesday night after “inspection of the crime spot, scrutiny of CCTV footage, call records, statements and questioning of several people” revealed that he had carried a knife inside the school campus on the day of the crime and used it to kill his junior school mate.
The CBI took over the case on September 22 from Haryana Police, nearly two weeks after the Class 2 boy was found with his throat slit in a school bathroom.
The accused will now be produced before the Juvenile Justice Board, where the court is expected to decide whether he is to be treated as a major or a minor as per the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015.
Until now, a school bus conductor at Gurgaon’s Ryan International School was believed to be the prime suspect in the murder of the seven-year-old. Days after the killing, Gurgaon Police had arrested the conductor for the child’s murder.
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