CBI Apprehends Class XI Student in Ryan School Murder Case

NEW DELHI:
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has apprehended a class XI student of Ryan International School in Gurugram for the murder of the seven-year-old student.
The CBI said the Class XI boy committed the murder to get the scheduled exams and parent-teacher meeting postponed. The student will be produced before a juvenile court later in the day.
The agency also cleared the school bus conductor who was earlier arrested as a suspect. The accused student was picked up from his home in Sohna on Tuesday night, CBI sources said. He is currently being interrogated, the sources said.
“We have apprehended a Class 11 boy for the murder of Pradyuman Thakur. The accused planned the crime to get exams and parent-teacher meeting postponed. During the probe, he was seen coming out of the toilet around the time of the crime in CCTV footage. So he has become the prime suspect,” a CBI spokesperson said.
“The bus conductor Ashok had no role to play in the murder. We are, however, still probing the destruction of evidence angle in the case.” The accused was weak in studies and was worried that in the upcoming examinations he was going to fail. “That is why he thought of doing something sensational to get the exams postponed,” a CBI official said.
Seven-year-old Pradyuman Thakur was found dead inside the washroom of Gurugram’s Ryan International School on the morning of September 8, 2017. Pradyuman’s body was discovered by fellow school students at around 8 am with his throat slit and a knife near his body. Postmortem later revealed that a 18×2-cm neck-to-ear cut was what killed the child.
Gurgaon police had initially arrested the school bus conductor in the case alleging that he had tried to sodomise the victim and later killed him when he tried to raise an alarm. The case was later transferred to the CBI by the state government.