Class XI student of Ryan International detained by CBI in Pradyuman Murder Case
Class XI student of Gurgaon’s Ryan International School has been detained by the CBI in connection with the murder of seven-year-old Pradyuman Thakur in the school premises.
The CBI is expected to relea
e an official statement later today morning.
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.
To which 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.
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.
