Panchkula: 15-year-old stabbed outside school, parents blame school
Panchkula: 15-year-old stabbed outside school, parents blame school
A 15-year-old boy, Vikas Kumar, was stabbed to death over the theft of a mobile phone outside Major Sandeep Sagar Government Senior Secondary School, Sector 7 in Panchkula.
The main accused are two students of the school, who are juvenile.
Eyewitnesses said some of the attackers were in ITI uniform and the incident occurred around 2.30 pm on Monday.
The victim was a student of Class XI of the arts stream in the school. His brother, Akash, was also his classmate, but he had left earlier.
Vikas was declared brought dead. He had suffered an injury in the chest.
According to the police, Vikas had an altercation with the accused over the theft of a mobile phone, which resulted in the fight today.
ACP Noopur Bishnoi and the SHO of the Sector 5 police station, Inspector Arvind Kumar, reached the spot.
Principal Sanjay Kumar, who had come to meet the family at the General Hospital, Sector 6, said he was unaware about any old enmity of Vikas with somebody. He said he had gone for a meeting and was not in the school at the time of the incident.
Vikas’ father Banwari Lal works in a factory as a labourer, while his mother Meena is employed as an attendant in British High School, Sector 8, Panchkula. The family lives in Railla village in Sector 12, Panchkula. Meena said, “The school should have taken care of its students. They need to protect them.” She said, “We will not allow the postmortem and the school to function till the accused are arrested.”
Panchkula DCP Abhishek Jorwal said they had identified the accused. “There are two main accused in the incident, who are from the same school. It is learnt that on Saturday, there was a scuffle between the victim and the accused over the theft of a mobile phone belonging to the victim’s friend. It is claimed that the victim had allegedly slapped one of them,” said Deputy Commissioner of Police Abhishek Jorwal.
He said, “Today, the accused brought other boys to the school and Vikas was stabbed.”
The police have registered a murder case and have sent crime branch teams to arrest the accused.
“Once, the main accused are arrested, we will arrest the others,” said Jorwal.
-PTC News
