Kanpur, September 29: Two days after a 12-year-old girl died following an alleged sexual assault in school, 11 more people, including the school manager, were detained for questioning today.
Police are still groping in the dark about the culprit behind the crime and no arrests have been made so far.
However, manager of Bharatiya Gyan Sthali School Chandra Pal Verma and his son, who were missing since Monday, were nabbed and being questioned in connection with the case.
The manager told police that he was unaware of any sexual assault on the girl, a student of class VI, and that she was sent back home after she suddenly started bleeding in the class, Superintendent of Police (Rural) Ram Bahadur said.
The girl later died at a hospital.
Meanwhile, the girl’s postmortem report revealed excessive bleeding due to unnatural sex and mental shock as the cause behind the death.
–Agencies