On Sunday, 14 October, Class 10 students of the Havanur Public School in Bengaluru went to attend a class. What they did not expect was to watch their teacher get brutally murdered.
Ranganath, 56, the principal of the school located near Magadi Road, had instructed the students to attend school on Sunday for special class.
At around 11 am, a group of five men barged into the school. Despite several attempts by the security guard to stop them, the gang of men allegedly pushed him aside and went in.
The horrified students began screaming and this alerted passers-by, who went in to see what was going on.
“By the time the people came to see what happened, the men had fled the spot,” the police added.
The people who went into the classroom saw Ranganath bleeding and the students crying. “The students have been petrified by the incident. We have taken down the statements of the people who were there. We will get the statements of the students once they are out of shock and recovered,” the police added.
“We have the images of the men from the cameras. Our team is in the process of arresting them. We have registered a case of murder against unidentified persons currently. Their names will be added once we nab them. We suspect that the issue was personal. So far, the suspicion is that the principal had an affair with someone and that the killing was one of revenge. We have taken down the statement of the family members and are pursuing it,” the police said.
(This article was first published on The News Minute and has been republished with permission.)
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