Days after the murder of a seven-year-old boy in Ryan International School in Gurugram, Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Monday said that political support to big private schools helped them in evading CBI probes in such cases.
Recalling the death of six-year-old Devyansh Kakrora at Delhi’s Ryan International School on January 30, 2016, he said that he had then asked for a CBI probe into the case but to no avail.
“I had then asked for a CBI probe into the matter but I do not know why it was not conducted,” said Sisodia, who holds charge of the Education portfolio, adding that maybe it was because of “political support” to the school.
“Had the CBI probe in the matter been launched then, we would have probably stopped the recent death in the Gurugram school,” he claimed.
Sisodia added that because of political support, big private schools were able to hide many such incidents which occurred in their premises.
“Until big private schools are freed of the political patronage, they will continue to act according to their whims and fancies,” the Aam Aadmi Party leader told reporters.