Overview
- Police arrested Saurabh Mishra on Thursday and a court sent him to jail with associate Harshita Soni on charges of murder and destroying evidence.
- Mishra, who used the alias Kanhaiya, told investigators he beat 11-year-old Divyansh over three days at the Lucknow gurukul after complaints about classroom behavior.
- Officers say they recovered smashed CCTV cameras, a DVR, and the stick allegedly used in the assault, and they report footage shows repeated beatings at the rented facility.
- Relatives say the body bore 40 or more wounds, while a videographed autopsy found injuries from a stick and belt with no sexual assault.
- Police say clinics refused to admit the child, the body was then left outside the family’s Kanpur home, and the family agreed to cremation after the state assembly speaker visited; investigators are now examining how the private gurukul with 8–9 students was run.