Ranchi: Police on Wednesday arrested a Hindi teacher who taught in Sapphire International School in Ranchi, for allegedly murdering her daughter’s classmate.
The teacher identified as Nezma Khatoon has been accused of killing class VI student Vinay Mahto, who was found lying unconscious outside the teachers' living quarters in the school premises.
According to reports, Vinay was last captured on CCTV footage, where he was seen walking out of his hostel room and heading towards the teacher’s quarters past midnight on Friday. After some time, he was found lying grievously wounded outside the main entrance.
The class VI students were allegedly in love with each other and the girl's parents frowned upon their friendship owing to their young age. Some reports suggest it was not the first time that the boy was stepping out to have a midnight adventure and that Khatoon was waiting for him.
When Vinay approached her quarter, the teacher brutally thrashed him and then pushed him off the first floor, leaving him almost dead. The boy later succumbed to his injuries in a hospital.
At first the police suspected that the young boy was possibly sodomised by a male teacher and then murdered, but they abandoned the angle after evidence gathered by them failed to corroborate the theory.
After digging further, the police found out about Vinay’s friendship with Khatoon’s daughter and she was arrested for murdering the boy.
