Ryan re-run: 6-year-old student in UP's Brightland School attacked in toilet

Lucknow: The principal of a school, where a class 1 boy was allegedly attacked with a sharp-edged weapon by a girl, was on Thursday arrested even as officials said the suspect wanted a holiday in the event of a schoolmate's death.

Meanwhile, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath visited the trauma centre here and talked to doctors, inquiring about the well-being of six-year-old Ritik, who was attacked in the toilet of Brightland School in Triveni Nagar locality by his senior, in a stark reminder of the murder of class II student Pradyuman Thakur in a Gurgaon school last year.

The boy was stated to be out of danger.

The police arrested the school's principal Rachit Manas in connection with the incident that took place on January 16.

"He has been arrested for negligence and hiding evidence.

He did not inform the police of the incident," Senior Superintendent of Police Deepak Kumar said.

The SSP said the knife used by the 11-year-old girl, who was his senior in the school and was studying in class 7, has also been recovered and she will be produced before the juvenile justice board.

"The hair recovered from the victim has been sent for forensic examination," Kumar said.

District Magistrate Kaushal Raj Sharma said that prima facie it appeared that someone might have told the girl that a holiday could be announced by the school authorities only if there was the death of any student.

"To get the school closed, the girl attacked Ritik," police said.

Dr Sandeep Tewari, who was treating the boy, said the victim had deep wounds on chest and stomach that "seem to have been inflicted with a knife-like sharp object".

An FIR was lodged in connection on Wednesday.

Panic gripped the school a day after the incident took place when other parents came to know about the matter and charged the school administration with trying to hush up the case.