Speaking to Express, Kaveripattinam inspector Zakir Hussain said the case, which was registered under IPC 174, has been converted as a murder case under section IPC 302. They immediately informed the hostel warden, who reportedly took the boy to Krishnagiri government hospital, where he was declared brought dead.Īccording to police sources, the accused had earlier claimed that the hostel warden had locked the bathroom from the inside and it was he who had forced the 9-year-old into unnatural sex and then murdered him.īut with the post-mortem report and circumstantial evidence, the police zeroed in on their suspect. Fearing that the issue would be leaked, the accused smashed his head with a boulder and returned to his room.Ī few of the hostel students spotted blood stains on his pants and questioned him about it, but he brushed off their queries and hid the evidence.Ī while later, another group of hostel boys who had gone to the bathroom was shocked to see the 9-year-old lying in a pool of blood. Irritated by this, the accused kicked the victim, who fainted.
Police were able to crack the case when one of the hostel inmates said the accused had hidden a blood-stained pair of pants in his room on Monday evening.Īs per the investigation, the accused forced the victim to have unnatural sex on Monday in the hostel bathroom but after this incident, he refused to cooperate any further with the accused.