KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 12 -- A male student, who was in a Form One transitional class at the time of the incident, pleaded not guilty at the High Court in Shah Alam on Thursday to a charge of murdering a 16-year-old female classmate in a stabbing incident at a secondary school in Bandar Utama last October.

According to a report in Sinar Harian, the 15-year-old entered his plea after the charge was read again in Mandarin before Justice Adlin Abdul Majid.

Proceedings were held behind closed doors, with only the teenager's family allowed in the courtroom, as the case involves a juvenile.

According to the charge, the student is accused of killing a Form Three transitional class pupil in the girls' toilet of a national secondary school in Banda...