Six arrested for school student’s death

Tribune News Service

Jhajjar, January 21

The police have solved the mystery behind the death Priyam, a student of Class XI at Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya in Kaloi village of the district, with the arrest of six students of the school.

Five of the students were sent to Bal Sudhar Ghar in Hisar while one was released on bail.

However, the police as well as the school authorities heaved a sigh of relief with the arrest of the students. Higher officers of Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti and members of the State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (SCPCR) daily visited the school to keep a tab on the police investigation.

“Priyam had died in a road mishap on Monday night but his friends fabricated a story with an intention to evade disciplinary action against them for moving out of the hostel without permission,” said police sources. The students misled the police and the school authorities for four days by stating that Priyam had died after an accidental fall from rooftop of the hostel, said the sources.

The sources said Priyam along with two friends went out of the hostel to bring some snacks and cold drinks. He became unconscious after he was hit by a speedy vehicle on the road. His friends with the help of four other students immediately dragged him to the hostel instead of rushing him to hospital and cooked up the story.

Later, the school staff took Priyam to hospital where he declared brought dead, the sources said.

Later, Priyam’s relatives alleged that he was murdered as the body bore multiple injury marks. Priyam had come to the school hostel on the same day from his home in Rohtak.

Chaman Lal, spokesman of the Jhajjar police, said that a case under Sections 279 (rash and negligent driving) and 304 A (causing death by negligence) of the IPC had been registered against unidentified driver in connection with the Priyam’s death while the students had been booked under Sections 201 (causing disappearance of evidence of offence, or giving false information to screen offender) of the Indian Penal Code.