Varun Thakur, father of murdered Ryan school student Pradyuman Thakur, on Wednesday filed an application before the Juvenile Justice Board in Gurugram demanding that the accused be tried as an adult. Seven year Pradyuman was murdered on September 8, 2017 inside the school’s washroom and Gurugram Police had arrested a bus conductor.
However, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) nabbed a Class XII student of Gurugram's Ryan International School, Bhondsi campus on November 8 and produced him before the juvenile justice board, accusing him of murdering the child.
As per the law, a juvenile aged between 16 and 18 years of age has to be tried as adult for heinous offences such as murder and rape. As per the mandate, warrant and spirit of the amendment carried in the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015.
Varun's lawyer Sushil Tekriwal confirmed about the four-page application and said, “The nature of the crime was very serious. The Class II student was murdered brutally on the school premises. We have demanded that the culprit should be tried as an adult,”.
“The accused should not get any leniency because of his age. He should be treated like an adult. We have demanded the same before the Juvenile court,” Varun said.
The murder by the accused juvenile was heinous, horrific and serious in nature, the application filed by the father stated. Meanwhile, the hearing on bail application of bus conductor Ashok Kumar, arrested by the Gurugram police is scheduled to be heard on Thursday at the Sessions Court here.
Earlier on Saturday, father of the accused boy had also said his son has been framed in the fake case by the CBI officials to confess the crime.
On the same day, when victim was murdered, the Gurugram Police had claimed to have solved the case and had arrested a school bus conductor and also recovered a knife that was allegedly used in the
attack. But the parents of the victim were not satisfied. On September 22, and the CBI took over the case.