New Delhi: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on Saturday issued a show cause notice to Ryan International School in connection with the murder of seven-year-old Pradhuman Thakur in the school premises.

The board has given two weeks time to the school to respond to the notice.

“The two-member committee report on Ryan International School has been received by the board and being examined in the light of prescribed guidelines and violations thereof.

“A show cause notice to the school has been served to be responded within a fortnight. Next action will be taken accordingly,” a CBSE official said.

The CBSE had set up a committee to investigate the murder of the Class 2 student who was found dead on Friday by a school staffer in the washroom with his throat slit.

In its report submitted on Friday, the committee said that CCTVs were not functional in the school and non-teaching staff used the same toilet as school students.

It has also objected to bus drivers and conductors using the toilets meant for students. It also observed that only three out of five floors of the school building were used for teaching purposes and students had access to unused classrooms and the terrace, which were not locked, compromising their safety.

The seven-year-old child was found murdered inside a toilet of the Bhondsi branch of the school on September 8.

The committee also highlighted breach in the boundary wall of the school campus, which they said was covered with barbed wires and posed a threat to children’s safety as anyone could enter the school premises.

CBSE had set up the committee on September 9 to check into the circumstances that lead to the boy’s death. It was also mandated to find out if the school violated CBSE’s safety norms and affiliation by-laws.

The committee, however, has reportedly not recommended disaffiliation of the school. The deadline for responding to a disaffiliation notice is one month.