Overview
- Police confirmed the Class 12 student died around 2:30 a.m. on December 7 after suffering head injuries in the December 4 assault.
- The incident occurred at Government Arignar Anna Model Higher Secondary School in Patteeswaram, where juniors allegedly struck the senior with a wooden rod.
- Fourteen Class 11 students have been arrested and lodged in a juvenile home as questioning and the investigation continue.
- Officers said the case, initially registered as attempted murder, will be altered to murder after the post-mortem.
- The boy was first treated at Kumbakonam Government Hospital before being moved to a private hospital in Thanjavur, where he underwent surgery for a brain blood clot.