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Barun Thakur, father of the 7-year-old boy who was found murdered inside the premises of the Ryan International School in Bhondsi, Gurugram, says he wants a “court-monitored CBI inquiry” into his son’s death.
There are a number of unanswered questions in the murder of Pradyumn Thakur, the Class 2 student who was found lying in a pool of blood inside a toilet of the school.
While Ashok Kumar, a 42-year-old bus conductor, has been arrested after he reportedly confessed to the crime, Barun says that he is not convinced by the police’s version of the events that unfolded on the day he lost his son.
The father dropped off the child at the school main gate at 7:55 am.
At 8:10 am he received a call from the school saying his son has been injured and is being rushed to Artemis Hospital.
Pradyumn’s father told The Quint that he believes it was a planned murder.
Barun said it takes about 10 minutes for a 7-year-old to walk from the main gate to the toilet or class. How is it possible that within five minutes of that, an attempt of sexual abuse was made on him, he was murdered for resisting the alleged abuse, his body was discovered, school authorities reached the crime scene, sent him to the hospital and informed the parents?
Parents of Pradyumn’s classmates told Barun that their children were asked by someone in the school to clean the bloodstains from his water bottle. This is not only tampering with evidence but also a dreadful task to assign to 7-year-olds. Moreover, why would a child carry a water bottle inside the toilet? Barun was also told that blood was cleaned from the toilet’s floor, although he has not seen the crime scene.
He said that although the school assembly starts at 8 am everyday, on 8 September, it was conducted through loudspeakers and the children were in classrooms. This means there were children not only in the classrooms but also the corridors and toilets. Why would the conductor use the kids’ toilet to sexually abuse a child, that too during the busiest hour of the school day when there were kids around? The staff have separate toilets.
According to the DCP, the conductor has no criminal record. The cops have asked for police verification records of all the staff in the school.
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