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Three teenagers were detained for strangulating a boy to death after he refused to share a bucket with them in the toilet. Police Commissioner S Dev Dutt Singh told reporters that they have been booked under Section 106(1) BNS and Section 75 of the Juvenile Justice Act, 2015.
He said KISS employees, including an additional CEO and two teachers, have been arrested on charges of threatening witnesses not to tell anyone about the incident, destroying evidence and harboring criminals.
“The Class 9 student was strangled to death after he refused to share his bucket with some others in the toilet on the night of December 11,” the officer said.
Singh said the boy’s body was handed over to his father and it was said that he died after falling in the toilet.
However, investigation revealed that he was murdered by a group of students, he said, adding that KISS officials also did not inform the police regarding the murder.
“The post-mortem examination revealed external injuries on the neck, indicating compression with some rough and tough cloth. Classmates and hostel mates of the deceased also said that three CCL (child in conflict with law) were involved in the incident,” he said.
The police commissioner said a case of unnatural death was registered at the Infocity police station after a zero FIR was received from the Keonjhar Town police station.
The deceased’s father lodged a complaint at the Keonjhar Town police station on December 13, alleging that his son was murdered and not an accidental death as claimed by KISS.
His father mentioned in the FIR that on December 12, he received a call from KISS informing him that his son has been admitted to Kalinga Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS) for treatment. On reaching the hospital, they came to know that the doctor had declared their son dead.
The commissioner said the students confessed to beating, strangulating and strangulating the deceased on the night of December 11, but the authorities, including teachers and staff, intimidated and threatened the minor witnesses to conceal the crime.
Eight KISS officials were booked under sections 103 (1) (murder), 238 (causing destruction of evidence), 296 (obscene acts), 232 (intimidating any person to give false evidence), 249 (A) (harboring an offender), and 351 (3) (criminal intimidation) of the BNS read with section 75 of the Juvenile Justice Act, 2015. Was.
While three CCLs were produced before the Juvenile Justice Board, eight KISS officials were produced before a court, which remanded them to judicial custody.
The death of the tribal boy had sparked outrage in Keonjhar district, with locals protesting in front of the collector’s office with the body on December 13 and demanding justice.