Seniors kill Class 7 boy, school authorities bury body inside campus
TNT Crime | March 29, 2019: A class seven student was allegedly beaten to death by his seniors and his body buried by school authorities inside the campus near Rishikesh to hush up the matter, police said on Thursday.
The incident took place on March 10 but it came to light after the intervention of the Uttarakhand Commission for Protection of Child Rights, Dehradun SSP Nivedita Kukreti said.
Instead of reporting the matter to police immediately, the boy's body was buried inside the campus by the school authorities to cover up the matter, she said.
They did not even inform the boy's parents who live in Hapur, the SSP said.
Five people, including the boarding school manager, warden, physical training teacher and two students of the school, have been arrested in connection with the incident and booked under different sections of the IPC, including 302 (murder), Kukreti said.
After the matter came to light, the body was exhumed by police on Tuesday to conduct a postmortem to ascertain the cause of his death.
(PTI)