Moscow, February 10 – The 15-year-old juvenile, who attacked and injured four Indian medical students and two police officers on Saturday, pleaded guilty and was remanded into judicial custody for two months on Tuesday.
The teenager, a student in the ninth grade of a local school, pleaded guilty and apologized to his victims for causing them harm, according to the Bashinform agency.
He was produced in the Ufa court and has been remanded into judicial custody until April 7, according to reports from the capital of Bashkortostan, 1200 km east of Moscow.
He faces a maximum sentence of 15 years for the knife attack on four Indian students and two police officers.
The Federal Investigative Agency has also launched a case against local officials responsible for combating juvenile delinquency, as they allegedly knew about the boy's connection to a banned Neo-Nazi group, National Socialism/White Power (NS/WP).
Bashkortostan is a Muslim-dominated republic of the Russian Federation.
Meanwhile, officials from the Indian Consulate in Kazan, the capital of the neighboring republic of Tatarstan, have visited Indian medical students undergoing treatment in the Ufa hospital and interacted with them.
"They are recovering well, and there is no cause for concern," a consular official told PTI.
The attacker entered the dormitory of the Bashkortostan State Medical University on Repina Street in Ufa and attacked the students living there on Saturday.
Resisting arrest, the attacker also injured two police officers and the hostel guard.