GORAKHPUR, Sept. 18 -- The former principal of a residential Sanskrit school in Kushinagar, his two sons and the serving principal have been arrested in connection with the murder of a Class 8 student whose body was found hanging from a staircase on September 12, police said on Wednesday.

According to officials, former principal Raghunath Pandey (65), along with his sons Shivam Pandey and Ramnath Pandey, strangled the boy after he resisted their attempts to force him into unnatural sexual acts. To mislead investigators, they allegedly hanged the body to make it appear as suicide. The serving principal, Awadhesh Dwivedi, has been booked for negligence of duty.

Kushinagar SP Santosh Mishra said Raghunath Pandey, who was addicted to obscen...