18-yr-old senior held in student murder case
MEERUT, July 15 -- An 18-year-old student has been arrested in connection with the alleged murder of a 13-year-old boy at Shri Gurukul Sanskrit Mahavidyalaya, a residential institute in Tilhar, Shahjahanpur. The arrest followed a joint investigation by Shahjahanpur police and the Special Operations Group (SOG).
The victim, Anurag Yadav, a Class 6 student and son of Brajesh Kumar Yadav from Ramkheda village in Kannauj, was found unconscious on July 7 in the school's Yagyashala, bleeding from his nose and ears. He was rushed to the Government Medical College but was declared dead on arrival, police said.
A post-mortem report confirmed a severe head injury and skull fracture caused by a blunt object.
Police launched a murder probe, examined 26 students, and recovered blood-stained clothes and broken sticks. Interrogation of four students who had been sleeping near Anurag led to the arrest of Ram Lakhan, a Class 10 aspirant from Lakhimpur district, who confessed to the crime.
According to police, the two students argued over sleeping space....
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