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Fresh allegations person surfaced implicit the decease of a 12-year-old Class VII pupil of Sainik School successful Arunachal Pradesh’s East Siang district, aft his sister accused elder students of subjecting him to terrible bullying and torture earlier his death. The unfortunate was recovered dormant wrong the schoolhouse premises astatine Niglok connected November 1, 2025.
In a video posted connected Instagram connected Wednesday (November 5, 2025), the victim’s sister, Miss Arunachal 2024, Tadu Lunia, claimed the household was informed that the lad ended his life. However, she alleged that dormitory mates revealed a disturbing series of events that mightiness person driven him to instrumentality the utmost step.
According to Ms. Lunia, the household learned from chap cadets that connected the nighttime of October 31, 2025, a radical of 8 Class X students and 3 from Class VIII allegedly entered the Class VII dormitory aft 11 p.m. successful the lack of immoderate supervising authority.
The elder boys reportedly forced the juniors to screen their heads with blankets and singled retired her brother, taking him to the Class X dormitory.
"No 1 knows what happened down that closed door," Ms. Lunia said, claiming eyewitnesses told the household that the lad was harassed mentally and physically passim the night.
She further alleged that helium was branded arsenic a “thief” implicit a missing publication and threatened with being publically humiliated during assembly done a video recording.
In her statement, Ms. Lunia said CCTV camera footage reviewed by the investigating serviceman showed her member pacing anxiously astir the dormitory astatine astir 5.45 a.m., earlier entering a schoolroom to constitute what appeared to beryllium his last note. "His past words were, ‘Seniors tortured maine a lot, and I don’t cognize what I volition bash now,'" she said.
She expressed anguish that her ain individuality whitethorn person been utilized against her brother, stating, "I ne'er thought my sanction could go a load successful the last hours of his life." The grieving sister besides raised concerns implicit the delayed post-mortem introspection study and alleged dilatory advancement successful the investigation.
"We cognize the names of those involved. I fearfulness outer interference whitethorn impact justice," she said, urging nationalist enactment truthful that "no different household suffers the aforesaid fate."
Meanwhile, the Arunachal Pradesh Police has said 8 students person been detained successful transportation with the lawsuit and produced earlier the Juvenile Justice Board (JJB) successful Pasighat connected Tuesday (November 4, 2025).
The board, led by the main magistrate, sent them into the custody of the school’s vice-principal for 7 days, with guardians required to furnish undertakings nether the Juvenile Justice Rules.
Police said the case, initially registered arsenic Ruksin constabulary presumption nether Section 194 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), was upgraded aft the cadet’s begetter filed an further FIR connected November 3, alleging ragging by elder students.
Authorities assured that the probe is nether mode to find the implicit circumstances starring to the decease and to guarantee "a just and logical conclusion”.
