A seven-year-old boy was found dead with his throat slit outside the washroom of Ryan International School’s Sohna Road branch here on Friday morning.
The police arrested conductor of the school bus Ashok of Ghamroj village in the evening for the murder.
According to Assistant Commissioner of Police Sohna, Dharam Singh, the accused was inside the washroom when he spotted the boy and pulled him inside in an attempt to sexually assault him. “But he got nervous when the child raised an alarm and slit his throat,” said Mr. Singh.
Identified by students
The officer said two boys had seen the accused inside the washroom before the incident which led to his arrest.
The Class II student was found lying in a pool of blood by a staff member a few minutes after the boy reached school around 8 a.m. The police said the victim crawled out of the washroom after the attack and was rushed to a hospital by the staff. He was declared brought dead at the Artemis Hospital.
Deepak Mathur, who conducted the autopsy, told The Hindu that there were two deep cuts on boy’s throat , suggesting that the assailant “used considerable force to slit the throat and that the weapon used was sharp”. He said death was caused probably “within a minute” of the attack.
Agitated relatives and friends of the boy’s family later vandalised the school property, breaking a few window panes. They also raised slogans against the school authorities and demand immediate arrest of the assailant.
Following the murder, members of the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) visited the school and recommended that a case of negligence be registered against the school management.
