A seven-year-old boy was found dead with his throat slit outside the washroom of the Ryan International School on Sohna Road here on Friday. The police have arrested one Ashok Kumar of Ghamroj village in connection with the murder.
The Class II student was found lying in a pool of blood outside the washroom by a staff member a few minutes after the boy reached school around 8 a.m. The police said the victim had crawled out of the washroom after the attack and was rushed to a hospital by the staff. But he was declared brought dead at the Artemis Hospital.
Deepak Mathur, who conducted the autopsy, told The Hindu that there were two deep cuts on the throat.He said death was caused probably “within a minute” of the attack.
Agitated relatives and friends of the boy’s family later vandalised the school property and raised slogans against the school authorities.
Deputy Commissioner of Police Simardeep Singh said the motive for the murder was not clear yet and that all angles were being probed. A forensic team also visited the spot to collect evidence. The knife used in crime was seized from the spot.
In the FIR, the boy’s father said his wife got a call from the school reception asking her to speak to a school teacher even before he reached home after dropping his son and daughter at school around 7:45 a.m.
When he called up the teacher, he was told that his son had sustained a gash on the throat and told to reach a hospital in Badshahpur. On their way to the hospital, they got another call directing the to the Artemis Hospital instead.
“When I reached Artemis, I found my son in the emergency ward with a long, deep cut on the throat on the right side. The doctor told me he was dead,” said the father in the FIR.