The Pinto family, owners of Ryan International schools, was granted conditional anticipatory bail by Punjab and Haryana High Court in…
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The Pinto family, owners of Ryan International schools, was granted conditional anticipatory bail by Punjab and Haryana High Court in the Pradyuman murder case on Tuesday.
On 8 September, Class II student Pradyuman Thakur was found with his throat slit in a bathroom of Ryan International School.
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Justice Surender Gupta directed the Pinto family to join investigations in the case. The court barred them from leaving the country without permission.
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In the previous hearing, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had opposed the bail pleas of Ryan owners Augustine and Grace Pinto and group CEO Ryan Pinto.
On Tuesday, the CBI summoned a relative of bus conductor Ashok Kumar on Tuesday. Kumar was arrested by the Haryana Police for murdering Class II student, Pradyuman Thakur, of Ryan International school in Bhondsi area of Gurugram.
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Earlier, CBI had made prima facie assertions that Ryan Augustine Pinto, chief executive officer (CEO) of Ryan group of Institution, may be involved in the in abetment or in a conspiracy behind the murder of seven-year-old student Pradyuman.
The CBI said in Punjab and Haryana Court on Saturday that “Possibility of him ( Ryan Pinto ) being member of the conspiracy behind murder of master Pradyumn in the washroom of Ryan International school, Bhondi, Gurugram on September 8 and its abetment, destruction of the evidence by him cannot be ruled out.”
Damage and removal of evidence cannot be disregarded, said CBI.
The Supreme Court issued notices to the Pintos and the CBI on October 13. The apex court later asked the Punjab and Haryana High Court to decide on the bail pleas of Pintos within 10 days, or November 16.
(With agency inputs)
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