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Ryan murder case | Haryana police tortured, framed bus conductor and planted evidence against him, says CBI

The second-grader was found with his throat slit on September 8.

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The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has said that the Haryana police tortured and framed bus conductor Ashok Kumar and planted evidence against him in Gurugram's Ryan International School student murder case.

The agency said in its chargesheet filed in a court on Monday that the 16-year-old student killed the Class 2 student on the campus and was "relaxed" when examinations and a parent-teacher meeting were postponed.

The chargesheet refers to the accused boy as "Bholu" and the murdered child as "Prince", as decided by the court. The juvenile is being treated as an adult and undergoing a regular court trial, as decided by the Juvenile Justice Board in December.

The second-grader was found with his throat slit on September 8.

The Haryana police first arrested the school bus conductor for the crime before the CBI took over the case and arrested the juvenile

The CBI said that fingerprints from the crime scene did not match with those of Ashok Kumar, but he was terrorised to the extent that he confessed to killing.

The accused juvenile had given contrary statements to the local police. The CBI said that from day one, school teachers and students suspected Bholu but the police ignored.

The CBI said the source of the knife used in the crime, CCTV footage and fingerprints have established the accused student's role. His Internet behaviour was also incriminating, said the CBI. One of his Internet searches was on "how to remove bloodstains". The agency also had a "behavioural analysis" done by psychiatrists.

The court refused to give any relief to Bholu and dismissed his bail plea for a third time.

Teachers had noticed the suspect — reportedly under psychiatric evaluation over anger issues — bringing a knife to school four days before the murder, but the Gurugram police did not give any importance to this crucial bit of information, CBI sources had earlier said. He confessed to his crime, in front of his father and an independent witness, the agency then told the juvenile court.

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