Munish Chandra Pandey | Posted by Amit Vasudev

According to CBI sources, within weeks of initial investigation, their prime suspect was the class XI standard student and not the bus conductor.The 16-year-old accused, who allegedly killed 7-year-old Pradhuman Thakur on September 8, was arrested by Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) after being on scanner of investigators for more than a month.

According to CBI sources, within weeks of initial investigation, their prime suspect was the class XI standard student and not the bus conductor, who was arrested on the day of murder by Gurugram police.The CBI sources have also told India Today that in last week of September, a team searched the residence of 16-year-old student and seized some articles which were later sent for forensic examination. CBI on Friday also told that there is a possibility of involvement of other person in the case.

However, the agency at this point of time does not want to divulge whether the other suspect helped in murder of Pradyuman or helped in destroying the evidence, or hiding some facts about the murder.

According to the CBI, the murder weapon which was used by the accused is the same as that was recovered by the Gurugram police from the commode of the washroom where Pradyuman was killed. After killing Pradyuman, the accused informed the PT teacher and gardener of Ryan International School that a student is bleeding inside the washroom.

The suspect, who is in custody of CBI has allegedly admitted to the murder of Pradyuman. Apart from the confessional statement, CBI claims that they have forensic evidence, CCTV footage and witnesses statement on the basis of which they have charged the juvenile of murder.

CBI officials have also told India Today that the motive behind murder of Pradyuman was to postpone the parents teachers meeting and examination.
Reportedly, the accused is not good in studies and was afraid of taking the exams.

Pradyuman Thakur murder case has turned on its head in two months as the two probe teams nailed two separate suspects. The Haryana police arrested school bus conductor Ashok Kumar and presented him before camera “confessing” that he murdered the 7-year-old boy.The CBI, after the case was handed over to it under intense media glare and mounting public pressure, revisited the evidence collected by the Haryana police. It gathered fresh proof from the crime scene and carried out forensic examination of all the materials in possession.