The CBI has told a juvenile court that class 11 student of Gurugram's Ryan International School, apprehended yesterday for allegedly killing a seven-year-old student, has confessed to his crime in front of his father and an independent witness.<br/><br/>In its note seeking remand of the 16-year-old student from the juvenile court in Gurugram yesterday, the agency said that his custodial interrogation was needed to ascertain if there were other people involved in the crime. <br/><br/>The CBI told the court that, it also wants the teenager to identify the shop from where he had purchased the knife used to slit the throat of Pradhuman, a Class 2 student, on September 8.<br/><br/>The CBI said, the interrogation was needed to reconstruct the scene of crime, to unearth conspiracy, if any, and to collect any other evidence related to the case.<br/><br/>In a sensational twist to the case, the agency announced yesterday that it had apprehended a senior student of Ryan<br/>International School on Tuesday night in connection with the murder of Pradhuman rejecting the Gurugram police's theory that the killing was the handiwork of school bus conductor<br/>Ashok Kumar. <br/><br/>The CBI has said that there was no evidence against Kumar so far.<br/><br/>According to the agency, the Class 11 student, believed to be weak in his studies, allegedly slit Pradyuman's throat to get the school to declare a holiday in order to defer a scheduled parent-teacher meeting (PTM) and an examination.
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Ryan School murder: Accused Class XI student admits killing Pradhuman, says CBI