New Delhi: The “deliberate” inaction of Ryan International School authorities that amounts to “gross criminal negligence” led to the death of six-year-old Divyansh Kakrora, the Delhi government has found in its magisterial inquiry into the case.

The development comes a day after the arrest of the principal and four other staff of the school located in south Delhi’s Vasant Kunj area, and six days after the class I student was found dead in a water tank inside the campus that has triggered widespread outrage.