Ryan school owners get anticipatory bail in Pradyuman murder case

GURUGRAM: Pintos, the trustees of Ryan International School, were on Tuesday granted anticipatory bail by Punjab and Haryana High Court in the Pradyuman Thakur murder case.

Earlier in the day, the Central Bureau of Investigation had submitted its sealed status report before Punjab and Haryana HC in connection with the bail plea of the Pinto family.

During the last hearing on November 17, the CBI had opposed the bail plea of the three trustees of the school and had demanded their custody. They had said that their role in a bigger conspiracy cannot be ruled out. 

A Gurugram District Court also granted bail to conductor Ashok Kumar who was arrested by the Haryana Police in the murder case. The Gurugram District Court judge observed that the CBI did not submit any concrete evidence against the bus conductor in connection with 7-year-old child's murder. 

Court also exonerated Ashok, saying it's a matter of life and death so we allow the bail with a bond of Rs 50,000.

''The bail was granted under Article 21 of the Constitution. There were a lot of differences between findings of CBI and the Haryana Police. We were given benefit of doubt,'' Anil Sharma, the lawyer of bus conductor Ashok said.