PINTO PLEA FOR FOREIGN TRAVEL: HIGH COURT SEEKS CBI REPLY

GURUGRAM: On a plea filed by Augustine Pinto, trustee of Ryan International School, the Punjab and Haryana high court has served notice to Central Bureau of Investigation seeking its reply on the foreign travel of the petitioner from December 26 to January 5, 2018.

Following the order of the high court, the Supreme Court also granted the bail to Pintos. The high court had restrained Pinto from travelling outside the country without its permission while granting anticipatory bail in the Pradyuman Thakur murder case. Pinto has requested the court to grant him permission to travel to Dubai from December 26 to January 1.

take up the matter of the juvenile being tried as an adult. On December 15, the bail application of the juvenile was rejected

and the cold-blooded murder case of Pradyuman took a new dimension after the CBI trashed the probe by the Gur- gaon police and gave a clean chit to bus conductor Ashok Kumar, who was arrested with the charges of murder and sexual assault in connection with the case, and arrested the juvenile

On November 8, two months after the gruesome killing of 7-year-old Pradyuman in the washroom of Ryan International School, Bhondsi, CBI made a shocking revelation that a Class XI student was involved in the murder.

Earlier, the CBI had arrested 42-year-old bus conductor in the incident. He presently has been granted bail and is recuperating from his illness.