Overview

• Three Class-6 students were rescued from a locked room in Chaithla village of Kotkhai following a day-long search involving about 150 police personnel, drones and cyber teams
• Sumit Sood, 45, a former Bishop Cotton School student and engineering graduate, was arrested on charges of kidnapping minors with an apparent extortion motive
• Investigators say Sood mapped school outing routines, lured the boys by posing as an ‘old boy’, and held them at gunpoint after brandishing a revolver
• Police recovered a revolver, knives, ropes, masks, multiple mobile phones and a laptop from the accused’s home and are tracing vehicle movements and phone records
• School officials and the deputy commissioner have initiated a review of outing protocols as forensic and custodial inquiries probe accomplices and motive