INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
PATNA: A day after six-year-old student, Aryan Kumar Singh, was found murdered on the terrace of a private residential school hostel in
Bihar's Gopalganj district, police on Sunday said a 15-year-old class 8 student - Aryan's senior at the institution - had committed the
crime, reports Kshitiz Singh.The accused was detained late Saturday night
"During interrogation, the accused confessed to the crime, saying he killed Aryan in a fit of rage because he was upset by the victim's
behaviour of misplacing his things," Gopalganj SP Swarn Prabhat said, adding that the accused told cops that he had first hit Aryan with a
brick and then strangled him using a cloth.A five-member SIT was formed under inspector (Mirganj circle) Lalan Kumar to probe the killing,
"Police and forensic experts, along with a dog squad, investigated the crime spot and recovered a brick and a blood-stained cloth
Cops also scanned the CCTV footage in which the 15-year-old accused was seen coming down from the terrace on Saturday morning," he said."The
accused will be sent to a remand home after being produced before a juvenile court," SP Prabhat added.
