A special court here on Wednesday acquitted 44-year-old Ashok Kumar, the bus conductor of a private school where a Class 2 student was murdered in September last year. Kumar was arrested as the main accused in the case but the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) gave him a clean chit in its primary charge sheet …
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February 28, 2018Disgruntled BJP MP Shatrughan Sinha on Monday demanded that all interrogations into the murder of seven-year-old Pradhuman Thakur must be done under “camera surveillance” with no “third-degree torture”. The Class 2 Ryan International school student was found with his throat slit inside the Gurugram school washroom on September 8 just after he was dropped by …
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November 13, 2017Not quite, the circumstances are decidedly different. Yet even while still in orbit are myriad contradictions surrounding the killing of a young girl in an eastern satellite of the Capital, another gruesome murder of a child in a western satellite has exploded in controversy. In both cases, when entrusted with the probes the CBI has …
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November 11, 2017The Supreme Court on Monday asked the Punjab and Haryana High Court to decide in 10 days the anticipatory bail plea of three Ryan group trustees in a case relating to the murder of a seven-year-old boy in the group’s Gurgaon-based school, as per the boy’s father and lawyer. Taking a serious view of the …
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November 7, 2017The Bombay High Court on Wednesday adjourned till afternoon the hearing in the anticipatory bail plea filed by Ryan International School trustees in a case involving the murder of a Class 2 student at their Gurugram branch. The adjournment follows an intervention application — filed by the father of seven-year-old Pradhyuman Thakur, who was murdered …
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September 13, 2017The father of a seven-year-old boy murdered inside the Gurugram branch of the Ryan International School in Haryana last week filed an application on Wednesday in the Bombay High Court seeking dismissal of the anticipatory transit bail plea filed by the school’s trustees. Varun Thakur intervened through his lawyers Sushil K. Tekriwal and Mamta Tekriwal …
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September 13, 2017In a temporary reprieve on Tuesday, the Bombay High Court adjourned till Wednesday the hearing of an anticipatory bail application filed by the trustees of Ryan International Schools in the case of the death of a seven-year-old student in their Gurugram branch. The trustees – Augustine F. Pinto, his wife Grace Pinto and their son …
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September 12, 2017The Supreme Court today agreed to hear on September 15 a plea filed by two women lawyers seeking implementation of existing guidelines to ensure safety and well-being of children in schools across the country. A bench comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices Amitava Roy and A M Khanwilkar said that it has already issued …
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September 12, 2017