A juvenile involved in the incident has been arrested A nine-year-old boy from a boarding school in Hathras, Uttar Pradesh, India, has been strangled to deathofficials said Wednesday.
‘We have arrested the minor after confessing to the investigation officer that he strangled the child. He thought that the school would be closed after his death and he would not need to attend classes,” said Chiranjeevnath Sinha, Superintendent of Police, Hathras. According to Sinha, the girl used a towel to strangle the victim.
“He is currently in the orphanage and we are investigating the matter,” the SP said.
talking The Indian ExpressWhen SHO Lalit Sharma interrogated the children of the Kishori school, it was found that they did not want to stay in the hostel and wanted to return home, so they asked how to close the school.
“The CCTV footage showed him walking with a towel. He strangled the victim and asked his friend to lie down next to him saying he was scared,” said SHO Sharma.
The police found the body of a 9-year-old boy from the back seat of his school director’s car on August 26.
The director, his father and three school teachers were arrested, with police already suspecting the boy of having killed the boy while performing a black magic ritual to “bring fame to the school” and “avoid the trouble the director’s family was facing”. .
An FIR was registered against the five on September 27 under BNS Section 103(1) (murder) based on a complaint by the victim’s father.
SHO Sharma told The Indian Express that all five are still in judicial custody on charges of tampering with evidence. Charges under BNS Sections 238(1) (disappearance of evidence) and 239 (willful failure to inform of offense by person bound to inform) were added to the FIR. He added that they found the victim in the hostel room, after which they rushed him to a nearby hospital but he was declared brought dead.
“They wanted to protect the reputation of the school and did not inform the police about the child’s death,” the SHO said.
The director had initially told the police that the child was unwell and was first taken to a hospital in Sadabad and then to Agra, where doctors declared him brought dead.
He claimed that he had brought the boy back to Hathras due to which the body was in his car.
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