CCTV showed Prince getting choked in 2-min scuffle: Cops

Two days after a 12-year-old boy died after a fight with another student at a private school in Vasant Vihar, police on Thursday said that CCTV footage has emerged that purportedly showed that the latter held the deceased's throat for around six seconds, following which the victim fell to the ground.

- Hemani Bhandari

The deceased, identified as Class 6 student Prince, died in hospital hours after the fight on Tuesday, triggering protests from his parents, who accused Chinmaya Vidyalaya, the school in question, of negligence. The other student, also 12 years old, was apprehended the next day and booked under section 105 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), police said.

Sharing details of the CCTV footage, an investigator probing the case said that the fight between Prince and the other student went on for about two minutes.

"In the video, it's visible that the two students are hitting each other near the blackboard. The other boy then held Prince's throat for six seconds. Right after, Prince fell to the ground.

No teacher was visible till this point," the investigator said, on condition of anonymity.