Class 9 student hammered to death

GHAZIABAD - Unidentified assailants hammered a Class 9 student to death at his residence in Ghaziabad Friday, police here said.

B. Navin, a student in the Hindon Public School in Delhi, was found dead by his mother in the drawing room of his house in Lajpat Nagar of this town, a suburb of the national capital, in Uttar Pradesh.

“His mother returned to the house at 5 p.m. and found him dead. She then called her husband B. Kuraia, who is an executive with a firm here,” a police official said.

“We have registered the case and initiated investigation,” Superintendent of Police City A.K. Vijaita said.