Vadodara: The 16-year-old boy, who stabbed class IX student Dev Tadvi to death on Friday morning, was detained by the police from his aunt’s house at Valsad late on Friday night.
The revelations made by the minor boy regarding his planning to execute the murder shocked the police as well.
The boy admitted before the police that he had decided to kill someone in the school from the day he was insulted in the class by a school teacher. On Friday, he decided to execute his plan for which he carried a chopper used by his father few years ago. Police said that his father used to sell coconut at one point of time therefore he used the chopper.
The boy therefore brought the chopper to the school in his bag. A police official said that Tadvi was the first person he found nearest to the bathroom. “Since the boy did not know Tadvi, he initially tried to befriend him and asked him to come to the washroom along,” said the police official. Tadvi initially refused to come, but was coaxed by the 16-year-old boy.
The boy’s planning was so meticulous that when they went inside the washroom, he removed his shirt and kept it in his bag so that it does not get stained by blood. He then took out the chopper and before Tadvi could understand anything, the boy stabbed him. “He was under the impression that nobody had seen him and before anyone could find him, he fled from there. However, there were two other students already in the washroom who had seen the 16-year-old boy killing Tadvi. It was their statement that helped us in identifying the boy immediately, said a senior police official.
After committing the crime, the 16-year-old fled from there to house of his aunt, who lives nearby the school. He washed his hands there and changed the shirt with his brother who was already there, police said. When his aunt asked, he even informed that he had killed a boy. Later he went to his uncle’s house at Navapura.
The boy’s father had also reached there when he learnt about it. He changed his clothes and the father-son duo then left for Por in an auto-rickshaw. “They took a bus to Valsad from Por. The boy’s another aunt lives in Valsad,” said S G Patil, assistant commissioner of police (E division).
After the boy had been identified, the police started questioning his family members. During interrogation the family members then informed the police that the boy had left for Valsad with his father. On the basis of the information, the police had kept a watch there and nabbed the boy and his father.