Chandigarh, Nov. 1 -- The Punjab and Haryana high court has dismissed a petition from the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) seeking transfer of trial into murder of a seven-year-old student of a Gurugram school to Panchkula.

A Class 2 student of a prominent school in Gurugram's Bhondsi was found dead inside the school washroom on September 8, 2017. Haryana Police, which initially investigated the murder, arrested the conductor of a school bus the same day, and said that he had confessed to the crime. However, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which took over the case in November 2017 apprehended the accused, who was studying in Class 11 of the same school, on November 7.

In December 2017, the Juvenile Justice Board (JJB) de...