India, Oct. 29 -- A 15-year-old boy was critically injured after being stabbed multiple times by a classmate and his associate outside his school in Faridabad's Dabua Colony, Sector 50, on Tuesday, following a petty dispute over a damaged cricket bat, police said.

According to investigators, the victim, a Class 9 student of a private school, and the accused classmate lived in the same locality near the school. The two had been involved in minor arguments earlier, police said. "While playing cricket very recently in their locality, the victim had probably damaged the bat of his classmate," said Randhir Singh, station house officer (SHO) of Dabua police station.

Police said that, around 1.30pm, as the victim stepped out of the school to r...