Pradyuman murder probe LIVE: Red-faced Gurgaon Police says there was no pressure, made honest attempt to bring justice to family

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A day after the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) detained a Class 11 student of the Ryan International School in Gurgaon in connection with the murder of seven-year-old Pradyuman Thakur, the teenager will today be quizzed by the investigating agency for seven hours.

According to sources, the teenager will be questioned by CBI sleuths from 10 am to 5 pm today, and the during the course of interrogation, he is likely to be taken to the spot of crime and then to the shop from where he got the knife.

A Gurgaon court remanded the arrested teenager to CBI custody for three days on Wednesday. Pradyuman's post-mortem report said that the seven-year-old sustained an 18-cm long and 2-cm deep wound, a little over his neck, which cut through his ears up to the superficial scalp tissue behind the ear.

Given the nature of Pradyuman's injuries, who was found murdered with his throat slit inside the school washroom on September 8, the boy could not have survived for more than 2-3 minutes, the post-mortem report said.

HERE ARE THE LIVE UPDATES IN THE PRADYUMAN MURDER CASE:

12:25 PM: "There was no pressure at all. We did an honest attempt to bring justice to the family," the Gurgaon police commissioner said.

There was no pressure at all. We did an honest attempt to bring justice to the family: Gurugram Police Commissioner on Pradyuman murder case pic.twitter.com/FBjV8bGdhD
— ANI (@ANI) November 9, 2017

12:24 PM: The officer said that Gurgaon Police carried out the investigation into the Pradyuman murder at "a very early stage" and then handed over the probe to the CBI. "I am hopeful (CBI) will bring culprits to book and bring justice to the family," he said.

12:22 PM: "We had not concluded investigation, we had not done a specific role attribution. Evidence was in the process of being gathered," said Gurgaon police commissioner.

12:20 PM: Facing heat over alleged botch-up in the Pradyuman murder case, Gurgaon police commissioner said that the police had not concluded the investigation and evidence was still in the process of being gathered when the CBI took over the case.

THE SENSATIONAL TWIST IN THE MURDER CASE

The suspect's father had told India Today on Wednesday that the CBI told him that his son wanted exams to be postponed and therefore murdered Pradyuman so that the school declares a holiday.

As the teenager's father alleged that his son was being framed, the CBI maintained that he was apprehended after a thorough investigation based on scientific evidences and as well as forensic analysis of the CCTV footage and call records.

The arrested teenager was the last person seen leaving the washroom where Pradyuman was found murdered.

In a Mail Today report, the teenager is described by his classmates as "aggressive" and "a bully" who wanted to do something "big" to postpone the exams and a parent-teacher meeting. He is reportedly addicted to pornography and according to a student "always talked about sex and watched blue films even during school hours".

The Gurgaon Police had arrested the school bus conductor Ashok Kumar on the day of the crime for the murder of Pradyuman Thakur. Sources in the CBI said the bus conductor is "not in the picture" but are yet to give him a clean chit in the case.

Source: twitter