The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) team which is investigating the murder of a seven-year-old Ryan International student, Pradyuman Thakur, is trying to reconstruct the crime that took place in the school premises on September 8. The team took the 16-year-old boy, accused of the killing, to knife shops. It will also take the boy who is in ‘conflict with the law’ to the school for the reconstruction.
The CBI questioned the boy for six hours before taking him to the knife shops. He will be taken to the school soon, where the premier investigative agency will try to extract a blow-by-blow account of how the accused allegedly killed the Class 2 student.
On Wednesday, the CBI told a Juvenile Court that the boy confessed to his crime, and the motive of the murder was to delay an exam. The court had granted CBI his custody for three days.
Pradyuman was found murdered outside school toilet 15 minutes after his father, Varun Thakur, dropped him and sister to school. The police told that they had nabbed the killer, a bus conductor. They also claimed that the murder weapon had been recovered from the man, identified as Ashok Kumar.
The police said that Ashok had tried to sexually assault Pradyuman and killed him when he resisted by slitting his neck.
The CBI took charge of the case, they talked to the students. A gardener said that he saw Ashok Kumar entering the toilet, but not with a knife. Students told the agency that they saw the Class 11 student with a knife earlier. The CBI also examined CCTV footage closely to find out that the student was near the toilet, reported NDTV.
The CBI found out that the student had undergone psychiatric counselling for a year. He also had anger management issues. He was also termed rowdy by his classmates. The CBI is searching for a damning evidence that stands in the court.
