The top court said the involvement of Ryan Pinto, Grace Pinto and Augustine Francis Pinto, the three top trustees of school, in the crime cannot be established until and unless there was some substantial evidence against them.
A bench of Justices R K Agrawal and Abhay M Sapre said it does not find any good ground to interfere with the November 21 order of the Punjab and Haryana High Court.
The case was transferred to the CBI and the agency had apprehended a class 11 student in connection with the killing.
In the considered opinion of the court, the CBI is yet to come to a conclusion regarding the involvement of the Pintos' in the crime and they have made out a case for grant of protection by way of interim bail till the charge sheet is filed, the top court said.
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"Their involvement cannot be established until and unless there is some substantial evidence against them," it said.
It noted that, in the FIR registered by the police and later by CBI, there was no allegations against the Pintos or their involvement in the incident which had received widely coverage in the media.
"In our considered opinion, the private respondents (Pintos) cannot be held guilty of any suppression, concealment or fraud in this matter for the simple reason that the petitions were prepared on September 15 and accepted by the Registry of the Punjab and Haryana High Court on September 17," the bench said.
Advocate Sandeep Kapur, appearing for the Pintos had contended that from a reading of the FIR registered by the Police Station, Bhondsi Gurgaon, which was re-registered by the CBI, there is no allegation against them.
He had submitted that the November 21 order, passed by the single judge, does not call for any interference.
Tekriwal had contended that even the CBI had opposed the plea of grant of interim bail, and therefore, the high court ought not to have granted interim bail to them.
The high court had on November 21 granted anticipatory bail to Ryan International Group CEO Ryan Pinto and his parents -- founding chairman Augustine Pinto and managing director Grace Pinto, in connection with the killing of seven-year-old Pradhuman Thakur.
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