Monitor for a day, 15-year-old boy stabbed outside school

HE WAS STABBED BY TWO OF HIS CLASSMATES FOR NOTING DOWN ONE OF THEIR NAMES ON THE BOARD FOR CREATING A NUISANCE IN CLASS

NEW DELHI: A Class 10 student was allegedly stabbed by two of his classmates outside a government school in south Delhi’s Tigri on Thursday evening for noting down one of their names on the board for creating a nuisance in class, the Delhi Police said on Friday.

Police said that the injured 15-year-old boy was admitted to a hospital with stab injuries on his back and shoulder. Deputy commissioner of police (south) Chandan Chaudhary said, “The attackers were apprehended and a case under charges of attempt to murder and an act done by several persons with a common intention of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) was registered at Tigri police station.”

Police said the two apprehended boys were produced before a juvenile justice board (JJB) on Friday. “The board ordered the boys to be produced on Saturday. Since they are minors, we have sent them back to their parents and will produce them on Saturday,” said an investigator associated with the probe, requesting anonymity.

“The doctor said the stab injuries were grievous,” the DCP said. The second officer said the boy is out of danger. All three boys are students of an evening batch for Class 10 at a government school in Tigri, and hail from the neighbourhoods around the school, police said. The injured boy told police that he was appointed as the monitor of the class for the day by a teacher who briefly left the classroom. “One of his classmates was creating a nuisance in the absence of the teacher.

So, the boy noted down his name on the board to inform the teacher when they returned,” said the DCP.

Police said this created a conflict in the classroom. “The boy asked the monitor to remove his name. When the victim refused, the boy threatened to teach him a lesson,” a second officer said.

“Around 6pm, while the victim was leaving school, the boy and one of his friends allegedly stopped him outside and stabbed him in the back and shoulder,” said the DCP.

While the attackers fled the crime scene, someone called the police, and the boy was taken to hospital. Police recorded his statement and registered a case.

The two boys were apprehended from the neighbourhood, and police are investigating if more students were involved in the crime.

HT reached out to the Delhi government for a comment which acknowledged the matter but did not clarify whether it will be internally investigated.