PUNE: The boy(14) accused of stabbing his classmate in an English-medium school in Balewadi was sent to a correction home on Saturday, while the injured girl was discharged from hospital in the evening after she underwent a surgery.A team led by senior inspector Arvind Pawar of Bavdhan police took the boy into custody from his aunt’s house around midnight intervening Friday and Saturday. An officer from the Pimpri Chinchwad police said, “We have recovered the kitchen knife and the boy’s clothes.”The boy was produced before the Juvenile Justice Board on Saturday morning. He was sent to the correction home after a medical examination, the officer said.Senior police inspector Pawar said, “The boy’s father is a software engineer and works with a prominent IT company. He was outside Pune on Friday. His mother is a homemaker. The boy used his late grandfather’s cellphone.”He said, “The boy was terrified when he was taken to a police chowkey. He had planned the attack elaborately. The injured girl was released from the hospital in the evening,” he said.The boy allegedly posted videos on social media of some girl students dancing during a school picnic. Pawar said, “He was told to remove the videos from the social media platform after the picnic. Teachers had to intervene and apologies were exchanged.”The senior police inspector said, “During the questioning, the boy told us that he targeted the girl because she was the first one to object to the videos. Earlier, he wanted to befriend her.”He said, “The boy told us that other students of his class used to tell the girl different things about him. She had shared the chocolate he gave her with everyone. The boy claimed that these made him angry. He felt humiliated after the girl and other students objected to the videos he had uploaded. He claimed to have been ill-treated through alleged misleading gossip about him.”Pawar said, “The boy held on to his grudge for the past one month and then decided to attack the girl. He took a knife from the kitchen on Friday and went to school. He assaulted the girl after the class.”
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