“I did not attack him with a blade. I pushed him and he fell on a tin sheet.” This was the version of events given by the 15-year-old boy to officials at the Dongri observation home, where he was sent after allegedly attacking his school senior with a blade on Monday morning.

The juvenile accused was produced in the Sewri Metropolitan Magistrate Court yesterday, in the absence of the regular juvenile justice board that usually meets the accused inside the observation home itself.