Janjivan Bureau / GURUGRAM: The Haryana government on Sunday said it was not averse to ordering a CBI probe into the killing of a seven-year-old boy at Ryan International School and has asked the Gurgaon Police to book the school owner under the Juvenile Justice Act. Education minister Ram Bilas Sharma also said that there have been lapses on part of the school administration.
Police lathicharge on mob near the school. One journalist injured during reporting the incidents of the school.
Hundreds of people today staged a demonstration outside the Ryan International School here demanding a CBI probe into the murder of a seven-year-old school boy and set afire a liquor shop near the school.
“We accept negligence on part of the Ryan International School but the school cannot be derecognised as the future of 1200 students is at stake,” Sharma said.
“We have directed the Gurgaon Police to book the owner of Ryan International School, Albert Pinto under section 75 Juvenile Justice (care and punishment act) Act 15 for punishment for cruelty to child meted out by the custodian in the charge sheet to be submitted in the court within 7 days.
“Some loopholes in the security are visible in the case and the toilet window was also found broken from inside,” Sharma told.
He said the charge sheet in the case will be ready within a week as police was speedily conducting the probe, but stressed that if the parents of the child insist on a probe by the CBI or any other agency the government will accede to their demand.
Talking to reporters here, Sharma also made it clear that school management has to take responsibility for the safety and security of children.
“We are issuing directives in this regard to all schools including private ones,” he said.
“We held a meeting today in which the demand to derecognise the school came up, but we also had to take into account the fact that 1200 students are studying there. The parents of students studying in this school were against this step and therefore we felt taking such a step will not be right,” he said.
“However, any kind of lapse, by the management or the owner, against all of them we have initiated action,” he said.
Meanwhile, hundreds of people today staged a demonstration outside the Ryan International School here demanding a CBI probe into the murder of a seven-year-old school boy and set afire a liquor shop near the school.
Police used batons to quell the protest and detained 20 protestors. Cameras of some photojournalists were also damaged during the protest.
Some of the demonstrators threw liquor bottles inside school premises to vent their ire against the school management, police said. The liquor shop is barely 50 metres away from the school.
They demanded that the school should be shut until a CBI probe is ordered into the incident.
“The Gurgaon Police had to use mild lathicharge to disperse the agitators. The police detained over 20 protestors found agitating outside the school,” Ravinder Kumar PRO Gurgaon Police said.
The protestors alleged that school drivers and conductors often consume alcohol from the liquor shop in their free time.
Praduman Thakur was found murdered with his throat slit inside the toilet of Ryan International School on Friday, triggering public outrage.
Gurgaon Police arrested school bus conductor Ashok Kumar in connection with the case.
Kumar was inside the toilet, waiting for any student to come inside with the motive of sexual assault. The deceased was the first student who entered the toilet, the police said.
