PATNA, April 10 -- The canteen guard of a Gurukul residential school was arrested on the charges of sodomising a five-year-old UKG student before murdering him in Jehanabad, police said.

The accused was identified as Mukesh Kumar alias Sudama, 46.

Police further said that the post-mortem report by a three-member medical board of Patna Medical College and Hospital (PMCH) confirmed sexual assault on the minor student before his killing.

Jehanabad Superintendent of Police (SP) Aprajit Lohan told the media that the arrested guard killed the boy with a sharp-edged weapon under the influence of alcohol. The accused confessed to the crime during interrogation and claimed that several students used to taunt him by calling him impotent, as his ...