Gurugram redux: Teen killed by senior in Guj school toilet

POLICE HAVE FOUND A SCHOOLBAG FULL OF SHARP WEAPONS AND A BOTTLE OF WATER MIXED WITH CHILLI POWDER

AHMEDABAD: A newly enrolled Class 9 student was stabbed to death in the toilet of his school in Vadodara, allegedly by a senior schoolmate, on Friday, in an echo of a similar incident in Gurugram, on the outskirts of New Delhi, last year.

“The body of 14-year-old Dev Tadvi was found from the first floor toilet in Bhartiya Vidhyalay in Beranpura with multiple wounds all over the body inflicted with sharp weapons,’’ said a police officer who reached the spot.

The murder may have been premeditated, said the police, who recovered a schoolbag full of sharp weapons and a bottle filled with water that had been mixed with chilli powder from the terrace of a temple adjacent to the school.

“The police have appre- hended four students and interrogation is on,” Vadodara commissioner of police, Manoj Shashidhar, said. The suspected killer is on the run and the students being questioned are eyewitnesses to the murder, the officer said . “The motive and reason of dispute will be cleared only after accused is nabbed,” he said.

At a private school in Gurugram, a Class 2 boy was found with his throat slit outside a toilet on September 8, 2017. The police had arrested a 16-year-old boy in the case.