Pradyuman murder case: Court discharges school bus conductor Ashok Kumar, asks CBI to speed up probe

A Gurgaon court on Wednesday discharged bus conductor in connection with the murder of a 7-year-old student of Ryan international school .

Pradhyman Thakur, the class 2 student was found with his throat slit in the school washroom in Gurugram on September 8, 2017, and the school bus conductor Ashok Kumar was arrested the same day by Haryana police for alleged killing him.

However, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which is probing the matter, had given him a clean chit and held a class 11 student of the school responsible for the murder.

Today, the court discharged bus conductor noting there was no evidence against him.

The court also asked the CBI to speed up the probe.

Earlier this month, in its chargesheet, the CBI had said that the fingerprints at the scene of the crime matched with the juvenile, the main accused in the case. The juvenile will be tried as an adult in this case.

The CBI has told the court that the bus conductor identified as Ashok Kumar be acquitted of all charges levied against him.

Earlier, the CBI had opposed the bail plea of the 16-year-old, saying the recent Juvenile Justice Board (JJB) order to try him as an adult "speaks about his mental status and the heinous crime he committed".