Ryan student death: Bombay HC grants interim protection from arrest to Ryan CEO and parents till tomorrow

The Bombay High Court on Tuesday granted interim protection from arrest to Ryan International Group's Chairman and Managing Director till Wednesday, in connection with the murder of a seven-year-old boy in the institution's premises in Gurugram.

School's founding chairman, Augustine Pinto, and his wife Grace Pinto, who is the managing director of the institution, had along with their son Ryan Pinto sought anticipatory bail in the Bombay High Court

The bail pleas were filed after two top officials of the School were arrested and the acting principal detained for questioning.

The father of the 7-year-old, however, approached the Supreme Court seeking a CBI probe, which prompted the apex court to seek responses from the Centre and Haryana.

The police claimed that evidence from the scene of crime had been tampered with and said they would bring the guilty to book.

Schoolbus conductor Ashok Kumar, who allegedly tried to sexually assault the class II student in a toilet and slit his throat with a knife when he resisted on Friday last is already behind bars.

The Haryana police has formed fourteen teams to probe the case, which has triggered massive outrage, according to officials. A special investigation team has reached Mumbai to question school CEO Pinto and director Albert Pinto,