Student last seen at games parlour

Lalit Kumar / TNN / Apr 3, 2008, 03:31 IST

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Himanshu was seen at a video games parlour close to his home which he used to frequent, before his stabbed body was discovered.

GHAZIABAD/GREATER NOIDA: There has been a disturbing rise in children suffering violent deaths. Just two weeks ago, a Class VII student was strangled and burnt in north Delhi's Alipur area. In December last year, two Class VII students of a Gurgaon school shocked the nation by shooting dead a senior with a weapon that one of the teen killers brought from his home.
Police said, Himanshu Joshi, a student of Ghaziabad's Shevron School, whose stabbed body was found on Tuesday, had set off for Shevron School, which is located near his Pratap Vihar home in Ghaziabad's Vijaynagar police station area. ��Himanshu apparently did not reach school. We have learned that in the afternoon, he went to a video games parlour close to his home which he used to frequent. He left his school bag at the parlour, and changed his shirt there. After that, he was not seen,'' Noida police chief A S Ganesh said.
His body was found by a woman collecting firewood off the highway in the Bisrakh area, close to the NTPC township. Police said boy's wallet had been untouched and contained his school identity card and his father's phone number. ��That is how we identified him,'' Ganesh said. Himanshu had two siblings �� sister Jyoti, 18, and 10-year-old brother, Rahul. A shell-shocked and bitterly sobbing Joshi told TOI, ��I don't rule out his schoolmates' hand in the murder. I do not know what will happen. But I have cremated my son, along with his school bag.''
Shevron school's director, Virendra Singh, said, ��The teachers have not told me about any beating incident involving Himanshu. He was a frail and quiet student who never got into trouble. We are all shocked."
lalit.kumar@timesgroup.com
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