By Our Correspondent
BHUBANESWAR:Commissioner of Police S. Dev Datta Singh said the KISS authorities handed over the student’s body to his family without informing the local police, initially claiming that the child had died of a heart attack.
The post-mortem report revealed the student had died due to strangulation. Based on documentary and circumstantial evidence, police concluded the death was a case of murder.
The arrested KISS employees were Additional CEO Pramod Patra, TGT Binaya Kumar Gochhi, Academic Coordinator Prashant Mallh, teacher Pradeep Kumar Das, Headmaster Rashmi Ranjan Naik, Assistant Field Officer Hemant Mohapatra, Supervisor Shubhakanata Behera, and Assistant Teacher Sujata Mishra.
In addition, some minor students have been detained in connection with the case. The arrests were made due to the alleged negligent and careless attitude of certain KISS officials in handling the incident.
The incident took place on December 12, when a boy student Siba Munda, Class -9 from Tikargumura in Keonjhar district died on the KISS campus. Alleging their son was murdered, the deceased’s family including father Raghunath Munda approached the Keonjhar Police Station. A zero FIR was registered and later transferred to the Infocity Police Station in Bhubaneswar for investigation.
