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Pradyuman Thakur killing: Class XI student detained by CBI on murder charges

IndiaPradyuman Thakur killing: Class XI student detained by CBI on murder charges

In the days after the headline-grabbing murder, Gurgaon Police had arrested a school conductor for the child's murder.

IndiaToday.in  | Edited by Dev Goswami
New Delhi, November 8, 2017 | UPDATED 09:51 IST
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    Class XI student arrested in major twist to Pradyuman Thakur murder case.
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    Local police had earlier pinned the blame on a school bus conductor.
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    Pradyuman Thakur was found with his throat slit on September 8.

The Central Bureau of Investigation today detained a Class XI student of Gurgaon, Haryana's Ryan International School in connection with the gruesome murder of seven-year-old Pradyuman Thakur.

The arrest, the details of which are currently sketchy, comes as a major twist in the Pradyuman Thakur murder case, a case that grabbed national headlines. The CBI is expected to release an official statement later today morning. 

The father said his boy was questioned by the CBI for an entire day at the agency's headquarters before being arrested. According to the father, his son was the first one to spot Pradyuman on the day of the murder.

While there is no official comment from the CBI on this, the father told India Today that investigators said his son wanted school exams postponed amd so murdered Pradyuman in order to get Ryan International School to declare a holiday.

Speaking exclusively to India Today, the father of the arrested Class XI student confirmed his son's arrest and claimed there was a conspiracy to frame his son.

Up until right 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.

Gurgaon Police even claimed they had managed to secure a confession from the conductor - Ashok Kumar. According to the cops then, Ashok had confessed to attempting to sexually abuse Pradyuman and then killing when the boy resisted.

However, the conductor's family members had claimed he was being framed while Pradyuman's parents themselves had expressed suspicion that the Ryan International School was hiding information in the Pradyuman murder case.

It was after sustained pressure from the parents that the ML Khattar government in Haryana transferred the murder case to the Central Bureau of Investigation.

Speaking to India Today soon after news of the Class XI student's arrest broke, Pradyuman's father, Varun Thakur, expressed satisfaction with how the national agency has investigated his child's killing. Varun, however, said he did not been informed about the arrest as yet.

THE MURDER

The seven-year-old Pradyuman Thakur was found dead inside the washroom of Gurgaon's Ryan International School on the morning of September 8, 2017.

The Class II boy's body was discovered by fellow school students at around 8 am - Pradyuman was found with his throat slit and a knife near his body. Postmortem later revealed that a 18x2-cm neck-to-ear cut was what killed the child.

Pradyuman Thakur murder

Policemen near the Ryan International School washroom where the 7-year-old boy's body was found (PTI photo)

That very night, Gurgaon Police, which handled the initial murder probe, arrested Ashok Kumar, employed as a bus driver at Ryan International School.

Police claimed Ashok came across Pradyuman in the washroom just as classes were starting at the Gurgaon school. There, police claimed, Ashok tried to sexually abuse the boy and then slit his throat when the child resisted.

(With inputs from Satender Chauhan)

 

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This cannot be a reason for such a disastrous murder..

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