<p>A tenth standard student was walking home with a prize and a garland when he was stabbed to death by three friends here on Monday. Harsharaj (16), a student of the Government High School, Yelahanka, had just been honoured at the school annual day for excelling in sports.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The friends surrounded him near the railway track in Gandhinagar, just 200 metres from the school, at 3 pm. They picked a fight and attacked him with a dagger.<br /><br />He fell and started bleeding profusely from his chest and abdomen. The assailants fled, Deputy Commissioner of Police Labhu Ram told DH. Some onlookers shifted Harsharaj to a government hospital, but it was too late.<br /><br />“He was an average student, but was dignified in his conduct. He wanted to be a sportsman and was concentrating on volleyball,” Vivekananda, vice-principal of the school, said.<br /><br />Harsharaj had been missing classes over the past few months, and the staff had told his parents about his poor attendance, Vivekananda said.<br /><br />Swift detention<br /><br />Police detained two suspects within three hours of the murder. “Both are minors, and have sustained injuries in the attack. They are being treated at a hospital,” Ram said.<br /><br />Initial investigations suggest the fight was over a girl, police said. The third accused is still at large. The three accused were old students of the school. One of them is now a first year student at the Government PU College on the same campus. The other two quit and joined another school a year ago, police said.<br /><br />Leelavathi, chairperson, School Development and Monitoring Committee, described Harsharaj as a “good boy”. His parents were in shock and refused to speak to the media.</p>
<p>A tenth standard student was walking home with a prize and a garland when he was stabbed to death by three friends here on Monday. Harsharaj (16), a student of the Government High School, Yelahanka, had just been honoured at the school annual day for excelling in sports.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The friends surrounded him near the railway track in Gandhinagar, just 200 metres from the school, at 3 pm. They picked a fight and attacked him with a dagger.<br /><br />He fell and started bleeding profusely from his chest and abdomen. The assailants fled, Deputy Commissioner of Police Labhu Ram told DH. Some onlookers shifted Harsharaj to a government hospital, but it was too late.<br /><br />“He was an average student, but was dignified in his conduct. He wanted to be a sportsman and was concentrating on volleyball,” Vivekananda, vice-principal of the school, said.<br /><br />Harsharaj had been missing classes over the past few months, and the staff had told his parents about his poor attendance, Vivekananda said.<br /><br />Swift detention<br /><br />Police detained two suspects within three hours of the murder. “Both are minors, and have sustained injuries in the attack. They are being treated at a hospital,” Ram said.<br /><br />Initial investigations suggest the fight was over a girl, police said. The third accused is still at large. The three accused were old students of the school. One of them is now a first year student at the Government PU College on the same campus. The other two quit and joined another school a year ago, police said.<br /><br />Leelavathi, chairperson, School Development and Monitoring Committee, described Harsharaj as a “good boy”. His parents were in shock and refused to speak to the media.</p>
