Sourav Raghav, driver of the school bus, says conductor was asked to carry kid's body
Sourav Raghav, the driver of the Ryan International School bus with whom the accused conductor Ashok Kumar used to work, told the police on Monday that he had rushed to the crime scene as soon as the murder took place where he saw the conductor wearing blood soaked clothes.
The driver said that Kumar had been called to help rush the child to a van which took him to hospital. On further questioning, he refuted Kumar's initial claim that the knife was a part of the school bus's tool kit.
Explaining the delay in calling the driver for questioning, a senior officer said, "Since we have been busy with law and order and other developments, the driver could not be reached. He was questioned and he revealed that he saw the conductor with blood stains on his clothes. He also said that the school staff had asked the conductor to carry Pradyuman to a school van in order to rush him to a hospital."
Raghav also told police that initially he was told the child has fallen in the bathroom and hurt himself. He added that the bathroom used by kids cannot be used by other staff members but no one ensured strictness as many flouted the rules.
"The conductor had said that the knife was a part of school bus's tool kit, but the driver refuted these claims. However, he stated that many others used to often cook and eat nearby, for which the knife could have been purchased by one of them," the officer added.
He said that Raghav who had known Ashok since February, stated that he did not suspect the conductor's character.
Meanwhile, a four member Haryana Police team comprising two inspectors was rushed to Mumbai to question Ryan CEO Ryan Pinto over the alleged negligence that led to the seven-year-old's brutal murder.
As established so far, Pradyuman, a student of Class 2, was killed by the school bus conductor when the child found the man masturbating inside a toilet in the school on Friday. Police have arrested the conductor who has confessed to have killed the child.
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