The CBSE has set up a two-member fact-finding committee to probe the circumstances under which a Class II student of Ryan International School was brutally murdered.
The Board has also sought a report from the school authorities about the murder. The report has to be submitted within two days.
Amid angry protests by parents of the students seeking action, the school management suspended the school’s acting principal and removed all the security staff. The protesters have also demanded a CBI investigation.
The seven-year-old boy was found with his throat slit inside a washroom on the school premises and rushed to a hospital where he was declared dead.
The police have arrested the school bus conductor, Ashok, for killing the student. As alleged, the driver was inside the washroom when he spotted the boy, pulled him inside in an attempt to sexually assault him and then slit his throat, when the boy tried to raise an alarm.
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Javadekar assures justice will be done
Dubbing the killing as “unfortunate”, Union Human Resource Development Minister Prakash Javadekar has said his Ministry was probing the case and assured that justice will be done.
“An investigation is underway. The accused has been apprehended by the police and justice will be done in the case,” Mr. Javadekar told reporters in Pune on September 9 on the sidelines of an event. “CBSE too has sought a report from its affiliated schools (about the safety and security of students) and following the report, necessary steps will be taken,” he said.
As far as safety measures at schools are concerned, the issue is not limited to only CBSE schools, but the safety and security of students from other schools are also important, the Minister said.
He said an investigation will be conducted into the incident and a report will be sought on how a bus conductor could gain entry in the school campus, where even parents are not allowed to enter.
“The police is already investigating the case. The HRD ministry too is probing the case and also contemplating what kind of standard operating procedures (SOPs) should be in place in the schools to avert such incidents in future,” he said.
Parents and schools and all the stakeholders need to be more careful and make sure that such incidents do not take place in future, he said.