Dehradun: In a shocking incident, a 12-year-old boarding school student was brutally killed with cricket bats and wickets by senior students. According to police, the school management, hurriedly buried the boy’s body inside the campus after doctors declared him dead.
Reportedly, there was a delay in taking the boy to the hospital after class XII students, aged around 19, beat him allegedly for stealing a packet of biscuits. The seniors even poured cold water on the boy. Following the beating, the boy passed away and was found by the hostel warden late in the evening.
“Not only was the boy taken very late to hospital that led to his death, the staff members also tried to hide the incident and did not report it to the police,” Senior superintendent of police (SSP) Dehradun Nivedita Kukreti was quoted as saying by the TOI.
Sharing the goring details, Kukreti said, “He was beaten up in phases in the afternoon, while he was taken to hospital in late evening.”
“The incident took place on March 10 and we were informed about it on March 11 following which we visited the school. However, when we got there, we found that the school administration had buried the body within the campus without even conducting the post-mortem,” Usha Negi, chairperson of the Uttarakhand State Commission for the Protection of Child Rights said as quoted by the daily.
She added, “It was only after our intervention that the police exhumed the body and conducted the postmortem” and that they (the school) didn’t even bother to inform the parents, who live in Hapur, that their child had died.
A case has been registered against three staff members (hostel manager, warden and sports teacher) under section 201 (causing disappearance of evidence of offence) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), while the two boys involved in the crime have been booked under section 302 (murder).
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