UP girl tries to ‘poison’ entire school to avenge brother’s murder

Gorakhpur (UP), July 18 

The police in Deoria district have booked a Class VII girl after her school accused her of trying to poison the midday meal to take revenge for her brother’s murder, allegedly by a fellow student.

The school in Baulia village under Bankata police station alleged that she put a poisonous substance into the lentils being cooked there yesterday.

The “poisoning attempt” was detected before anybody ate that food. Villagers surrounded the school and beat up the girl’s mother, the police said. The girl’s alleged motive was to kill all students at the school for the murder on April 2 of her brother who studied in Class III. A Class V child from the same school was  accused of that murder and is now in a juvenile home.

Bankata SHO Devendra Singh Yadav said a case under IPC section 328, which relates to causing hurt by means of poison, has been registered against the girl. “Preparations are being made to send her to a juvenile home,” he said.

The case was registered on a written complaint by the principal of the government junior high school. “The school authorities have told us that she decided to take revenge for her brother’s murder by killing all the children,” he said. — PTI