International - A bus conductor who was alleged to have killed a class two student earlier this year, was granted bail during a court session on Tuesday (today).
Ashok Kumar was arrested by the Haryana Police on the charge of killing Pradhuman Thakur.
Additional District and Session Judge Rajni Yadav granted bail to Ashok on furnishing a Rs 50,000 bail bond.
Pradhuman,7, was found in the washroom of the Ryan International school in Bhondsi area on Sohna Road with his throat slit,on September 8.
Gurugram police arrested Kumar on the same day claiming that he murdered the child after failing to sodomise him.
Two school staff and Kumar's family however claimed he was made a scapegoat since he was poor.
The Central Bureau of Investigation took over the murder case on September 22 and arrested a Class 11 student of the same school on November 8.
The arrested 16-year-old has been lodged in Faridabad's observation home.
Kumar was in jail even after the arrest of the school student.