New Delhi: A six-year-old student of a private school in New Delhi was found dead on the school campus on Saturday.

Devansh Meena, student of Class I at Ryan International School in Delhi’s Vasant Kunj was found dead in a pit near the school’s amphitheater.

While the police stated that there was a delay in the school authorities informing them about the death, the Delhi government has asked the area’s district magistrate to probe the death.

The incident happened around noon but the police were informed by the hospital where he was taken, officials said. It is not clear what caused the death. School authorities said the boy went missing from class and was found inside the pit which served as a refill tank. It is not clear of he had drowned.

On the other hand Devansh’s father R K Meena told that he has strong suspicion against the school because when he encountered the Principal and questioned what happened, the Principal shouted at him to asked him to keep quite.

Principal Sandhya Sabu later on calling it a freak incident has rejected the charges leveled against the school by the parents.

This is the second death of a child in the school premises in the national capital in less than a week. On January 27, a five year old boy drowned in a septic tank in a corporation-run school when he went to the toilet.

The police have moved the body to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) for a post mortem examination to find out what may have caused his death, sources said.