Ryan murder autopsy rules out sodomy

GURGAON: An autopsy into the murder of an eight-year-old student of Ryan International School didn’t establish sodomy but other forms of sexual assault cannot be ruled out, the doctor who conducted the procedure said on Tuesday.

A 42-year-old bus conductor, Ashok Kumar, was arrested after publicly confessing to slitting the throat of the Class 2 student who he allegedly tried to sexually abuse inside the private school’s toilet on Friday.

Dr Deepak Mathur, who conducted the autopsy at Gurgaon civil hospital, said the boy was not sodomised and no semen marks were found on his uniform. But a forensic report might be able to answer if any sexual attempt, say oral sex, was made before the murder, he added. The boy’s parents think there is more to the murder that has triggered public outrage and raised concern about safety measures in schools.

They suspect their son was killed because he must have seen some dirty secret in the school.

“It is not possible that my son was killed within 10 minutes of entering the school without any motive,” said the father, who wants a CBI investigation and have filed a suit in the SC.

He wants to know why no one heard the boy screaming when the crime happened close to classrooms of the school in Bhondsi, near Gurgaon.

Dr Mathur ruled out the possibility of the child raising the alarm as his windpipe was slit and he bled to death “in about a minute” from two deep knife attacks. As the murder continued to rivet the nation, Union ministers Maneka Gandhi and Prakash Javadekar decided to hold a high-level meeting on Wednesday to design a protocol to prevent sexual abuse and other crimes in schools.