Ahmedabad student had used foldable box cutter to stab schoolmate: police; another juvenile suspect detained

Crime Branch hard-pressed to find CCTV footage of the crime

Ahmedabad | Updated: August 22, 2025 12:13 AM IST

The transfer of the case from the local police to the Crime Branch had come after intense pressure from the family and protesters who allegedly thrashed teachers and vandalised school property on Wednesday. (Source: File)

The juvenile who allegedly stabbed another teenaged student to death in Ahmedabad on Tuesday had used a foldable box cutter to commit the crime, the Detection of Crime Branch (DCB) of the city police said on Thursday. The police have officially detained another accused, also a juvenile, in the case, officers said.
It was initially believed that the Class 8 student had allegedly used a knife, shard of glass, or a piece of equipment from the school lab to attack the Class 10 boy. However, DCP Ajit Rajian of the Crime Branch confirmed with The Indian Express that a foldable box cutter had been used in the murder. It is unclear whether the weapon is in possession of the police or not.

While the main accused student had been detained by the police on Tuesday, just hours after he allegedly stabbed the victim, another suspect was on Wednesday brought in for questioning by the Crime Branch, after it was assigned the case by Ahmedabad Commissioner of Police GS Malik. The suspect was formally detained on Thursday.

The incident had taken place at 12.30 pm on August 19 when the 15-year-old victim came out of the gate of the school. The juvenile accused approached him and allegedly stabbed him in the stomach. The victim was taken to a private hospital in Maninagar where he died at 3 am on Wednesday.

Following a complaint by school authorities, a mob of around 500 people was booked in an FIR by the local police for rioting and causing damage to the tune of Rs 50 lakh to the premises.

The Crime Branch, meanwhile, has its task cut out as the stabbing was likely not recorded on CCTV cameras. Officials told the Indian Express that while several police personnel had been deployed to carefully scan every CCTV camera in the area, they had found footage of only the victim leaving the school in the afternoon and then walking back to the premises with the stabbing wound.
Even as the Indian law expressly forbids the identification of minor victims of violent crime and juveniles in conflict with law, purported chats between the main accused student and his friend went viral on social media on Wednesday.

Asked whether this had been taken into consideration in the investigation, DCP Rajian said, “We have seen the chats floating on social media but we cannot go by it. We have sent the phones of both juveniles to the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) and we will wait for their report in the matter.”

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