Gurugram school murder: Education minister reiterates swift justice will be provided as parents' protest turns violent

Haryana education minister Ram Bilas Sharma vowed that those responsible for the killing of a seven-year-old boy in a private school will be brought to book within a week. Sharma, speaking to the press on Sunday, blamed the Ryan International School management and said that the state government will show no leniency to those behind the murder.

He added that the government will get the case investigated by any agency until the parents of the victim are satisfied.

Meanwhile, angry parents protesting against school authorities burned down a liquor shop outside the campus, according to CNN-News18 . Police resorted to lathi charge to control the crowd, according to the report.

On Saturday, with questions raised over security lapses that led to the murder, the Gurugram district administration announced a committee to find out whether there were any slip-ups and promised to conclude the probe and filing of a chargesheet within seven days. “We have set up a committee to prepare a comprehensive report about the security lapses in the school. The report will be submitted by Monday. The further course of action would be taken on the basis of the report,” Gurugram deputy commissioner Vinay Pratap Singh said. He said the committee would also probe whether any such prior incident had occurred on the school campus. With inputs from IANS