A 16-year-old student accused of killing a seven-year-old boy at the Ryan International School here will be tried as an adult, the Juvenile Justice Board said yesterday. The board passed the order yesterday morning responding to a plea that the teenager accused of the crime should not be treated as a juvenile. At its last hearing on December 15, the board had reserved its decision till December 20 on whether the accused could be tried as an adult.

Pradyuman Thakur was a student of Class II at Ryan International school