Subhechcha Ganguly 
Avijit Banerjee, the superintendent of police (SP) for Purulia, told reporters that the 14-year-old suspect requested the government to proclaim a holiday so he could return home.According to police, a Class 8 pupil at a boarding school in Purulia, West Bengal, has been placed under arrest on suspicion of killing a younger student in order to force the authorities to declare a holiday.Avijit Banerjee, the superintendent of police (SP) for Purulia, told reporters that the 14-year-old suspect requested the government to proclaim a holiday so he could return home.
The suspect was transported to a juvenile home after appearing before the juvenile justice board on Tuesday.A few hundred metres from the school, on the edge of a pond, was where the body of the victim—a Class 1 student—was discovered. The school was accused of neglect by his family, who later filed a complaint with the local police.
