RIS Principal Suspended, 3 day police remand of Accused

Janjivan Bureau / Gurugram: The bus conductor, accused of gruesome murder of 7-year-old boy at Ryan International school in Gurugram, has been sent to 3-day police remand by the Gurugram court on Saturday. Ashok Kumar, 42, resident of Ghamroj village in Gurgaon, was arrested by the police on Friday. He has been working with Ryan International School for the past eight months. In a shocking confession, Ashok Kumar said that he murdered him because he objected to having sex with him, reported a private TV channel. He stabbed the child twice and washed the knife in the washroom and threw the same at the site of crime and then after the child’s body was found, he helped the school authorities take him to Artemis Hospital.
Meanwhile, members of Bar Association of Sohna have decided not to appear on behalf of the accused during the trial. Haryana education minister Ram Bilas Sharma assures justice. “Going to Gurugram tomorrow. Culprit won’t be spared. Sympathies with child’s parents,” Janjivan reported him saying. The second standard student was found in a pool of blood in a toilet with injuries to his neck on Friday.
On otherhand the acting principal of Ryan International School Rashmi Prakash was suspended following the murder of class 2 student Pradhuman inside the premises of the school on Friday. The parents of Pradhuman, who was murdered allegedly by a school bus conductor inside the toilet, and the public have been staging massive protests outside the school and the office of the Commissioner of Police demanding prompt action against the school management in the matter. Heavy security has been deployed at the school since morning after parents protested and vandalised school property Friday.
Last night, the Gurugram Police arrested the school bus conductor Ashok in connection with the murder. According to the police, the conductor tried to sexually assault Pradyuman in the toilet before killing him. The Deputy Commissioner of Gurugram Police said that action will be taken against the security agency of the school and a special committee is probing the matter further.