GURUGRAM: The Class 11 student accused of murdering Pradhyumn Thakur, a boy nine years his junior at Ryan International School, was on Saturday sent to an observation home till November 22 by a juvenile court after the CBI said it was satisfied with the progress of its investigation.
The court also issued a notice to the CBI on a complaint from the boy's father that the agency had violated the interviewing criteria laid down by the court.
The CBI, which detained the boy last Tuesday and got permission from the court to interview him for three days, sought no further extension from the court.
According to documents submitted by the CBI to court, the boy's date of birth is 03-04-2001 (April 3, 2001) which makes him 16 years and six months old. "At present, the juvenile may be sent to the observation home. The investigating officer may seek further custody for 15 days if need be," the agency told the court.
CK Sharma, counsel for the juvenile suspect, said the CBI had requested that the boy be kept in an observation home in Delhi. "We opposed the submission of CBI and the court finally directed to send the boy to an observation home in Faridabad," said Sharma.
Alleging violation of the court direction, the boy's father, a lawyer, filed an application before court on Saturday, seeking appropriate action against the investigating officer and other CBI officials. He alleged the central agency had been restrained from keeping the boy out of the correction home after 6pm but had still done so. Issuing a notice to the CBI, the court sought its reply by November 22.
"The court had given specific directions to conduct an inquiry between 10am and 6pm. But CBI officials have openly flouted those orders," said Sandeep Aneja, another counsel for the juvenile suspect, adding the CBI was creating false evidence to implicate the boy and justify its investigation.
Denying these allegations, the CBI told the court, "The directions issued by the court on November 8 have been fully complied during the custody period."
CBI spokesperson R K Gaur said the every time the agency had interviewed the boy, a Juvenile Justice Board member was present there. "These allegations are false. We are not framing anybody," he said.
The CBI probe has also got Haryana's politicians talking, although not in the same tone. Health minister Anil Vij and Gurgaon MP Rao Inderjit Singh have welcomed the central agency's investigation, but state PWD minister and Badshapur MLA Rao Narbir Singh was sceptical.
"People are still not convinced about the theory of the boy killing someone with precise planning to defer a parent-teacher meeting and exam. An investigating agency is under the scanner for alleged hasty arrest. The mistake should not be repeated. I am not supporting or accusing anyone but let this case not be like the Aarushi case," Narbir said on Saturday.
When Gurgaon police arrested school bus conductor Ashok Kumar for the murder, it had claimed there were traces of semen on the boy's clothes. The police theory was that Kumar had tried to sexually assault the boy and killed him when he failed. The samples were sent to the Forensic Science Laboratory for tests. Asked about the report, Gurgaon police chief Sandeep Khirwar said, "I am no longer the investigating authority, so cannot say anything about this report. We had handed over everything to the CBI." The CBI hasn't revealed anything about the report yet.Pradhyumn died on September 8 after his throat was slit with a knife in the ground floor washroom of the Ryan International School campus in Gurgaon's Bhondsi. The CBI's and police's probes have, however, taken two completely different directions. While police believed Kumar was the prime suspect, the agency has concluded it was actually the Class 11 student who killed the boy because he wanted to defer the half-yearly exam and PTM.
The court also issued a notice to the CBI on a complaint from the boy's father that the agency had violated the interviewing criteria laid down by the court.
The CBI, which detained the boy last Tuesday and got permission from the court to interview him for three days, sought no further extension from the court.
According to documents submitted by the CBI to court, the boy's date of birth is 03-04-2001 (April 3, 2001) which makes him 16 years and six months old. "At present, the juvenile may be sent to the observation home. The investigating officer may seek further custody for 15 days if need be," the agency told the court.
CK Sharma, counsel for the juvenile suspect, said the CBI had requested that the boy be kept in an observation home in Delhi. "We opposed the submission of CBI and the court finally directed to send the boy to an observation home in Faridabad," said Sharma.
Alleging violation of the court direction, the boy's father, a lawyer, filed an application before court on Saturday, seeking appropriate action against the investigating officer and other CBI officials. He alleged the central agency had been restrained from keeping the boy out of the correction home after 6pm but had still done so. Issuing a notice to the CBI, the court sought its reply by November 22.
"The court had given specific directions to conduct an inquiry between 10am and 6pm. But CBI officials have openly flouted those orders," said Sandeep Aneja, another counsel for the juvenile suspect, adding the CBI was creating false evidence to implicate the boy and justify its investigation.
Denying these allegations, the CBI told the court, "The directions issued by the court on November 8 have been fully complied during the custody period."
CBI spokesperson R K Gaur said the every time the agency had interviewed the boy, a Juvenile Justice Board member was present there. "These allegations are false. We are not framing anybody," he said.
The CBI probe has also got Haryana's politicians talking, although not in the same tone. Health minister Anil Vij and Gurgaon MP Rao Inderjit Singh have welcomed the central agency's investigation, but state PWD minister and Badshapur MLA Rao Narbir Singh was sceptical.
"People are still not convinced about the theory of the boy killing someone with precise planning to defer a parent-teacher meeting and exam. An investigating agency is under the scanner for alleged hasty arrest. The mistake should not be repeated. I am not supporting or accusing anyone but let this case not be like the Aarushi case," Narbir said on Saturday.
When Gurgaon police arrested school bus conductor Ashok Kumar for the murder, it had claimed there were traces of semen on the boy's clothes. The police theory was that Kumar had tried to sexually assault the boy and killed him when he failed. The samples were sent to the Forensic Science Laboratory for tests. Asked about the report, Gurgaon police chief Sandeep Khirwar said, "I am no longer the investigating authority, so cannot say anything about this report. We had handed over everything to the CBI." The CBI hasn't revealed anything about the report yet.Pradhyumn died on September 8 after his throat was slit with a knife in the ground floor washroom of the Ryan International School campus in Gurgaon's Bhondsi. The CBI's and police's probes have, however, taken two completely different directions. While police believed Kumar was the prime suspect, the agency has concluded it was actually the Class 11 student who killed the boy because he wanted to defer the half-yearly exam and PTM.
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