New Delhi: The CBI on Monday told a court that it had clinching evidence against the Class 11 student accused in the spine-chilling murder of a seven-year-old in the toilet of a school in Gurgaon last year. Fingerprints at the crime scene matched the teen's and his mobile data also established his guilt, said the agency in a charge-sheet filed on Monday. The charge-sheet refers to the accused boy as "Bholu" and the murdered child as "Prince", as decided by the court.
A school bus conductor who was arrested hours after the murder and presented to the media as the main accused, will be discharged, a special court was told. Ashok Kumar, who spent two months in jail, will now become a witness for the CBI. The CBI charge-sheet also says the accused teen will be tried as an adult.
The class 2 student was found with his throat slit in the school toilet on September 8.
The CBI, taking over the case on September 22 amid allegations that the police had botched up, stunned everyone by zeroing in on a senior student.
The student had picked the child randomly and wanted a murder to force the school to put off exams and a parent-teacher meeting, said investigators.
The CBI said in court that the source of the knife used in the crime had been established and CCTV footage also reinforced the student's role.
His internet behavior was also incriminating, said the CBI. One of his searches was "how to remove bloodstains".
Records of the teenager's email and mobile use form part of a 2000-page annexure submitted along with the evidence.
Unusually, a "behavioural analysis" by psychiatrists of the student before and after the crime has also been included in the charge-sheet.
The class 2 student was found with his throat slit in the school toilet on September 8.
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The student had picked the child randomly and wanted a murder to force the school to put off exams and a parent-teacher meeting, said investigators.
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His internet behavior was also incriminating, said the CBI. One of his searches was "how to remove bloodstains".
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Unusually, a "behavioural analysis" by psychiatrists of the student before and after the crime has also been included in the charge-sheet.
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