CCTV footage helps agency nail accused

GURGAON: CCTV footage and searches on the internet helped the CBI nail the 16-year-old accused of murdering a Class 2 boy at a private school in Gurgaon on September 8 last year.

The central investigating agency filed a chargesheet in the case on Monday.

As per the chargesheet, the suspect’s statements did not match with the CCTV footage from the day when the sevenyear-old was murdered in the school washroom. During his questioning, the accused told the CBI that he did not see the victim the day the incident took place. He said the same in his statement to the Gurgaon police.

The chargesheet says that the accused can be clearly seen in the footage, walking near the victim towards the reception gallery. When the victim boy entered the washroom gallery, the accused followed him after 20 seconds.he entered the toilet at 7:38:23am and exits at 7:39:38am and then rushed upstairs, the chargesheet says, based on the observations made by the CBI while watching CCTV footage.

Also, despite the fact that the accused had an exam that day in his class on the second floor, he was seen on the ground floor between 7.35am and 7.39am “moving suspiciously”, the chargesheet says.

The accused’s explanation for his presence on the ground floor was also contradicted by the CCTV footage. While he told the CBI that a friend had asked him to wait near the reception, the footage showed that he entered the school only after his friend had already reached the class on second floor. The chargesheet also says that the accused boy also tried to tutor this friend that he should tell the same sequence of events to the investigators.

Another contradiction in the Class 11 student’s statement, which was established by the footage, was that he had gone to meet his music teacher on the first floor. The footage from two cameras showed a lapse of 10 seconds between his two images.

This couldn’t be possible if he had gone to meet the teacher since it would have taken him at least 30 seconds or more.

A student said in her statement that she saw the accused coming out of the toilet wiping his hands with handkerchief and he was gesturing to someone but she did not know who was there.

Some friends of the accused also told the CBI that he had asked them in July to bring poison or a knife because he to kill someone to postpone the parents teacher meeting.

The chargesheet also quotes his friends as saying that he accused was happy after the incident as the PTM was cancelled.