Three Teachers Booked for Beating up Class 5 Student in Bihar School

On March 23, in Shankar Yadav Tola village of West Champaran district in Bihar, an incident of brutal assault on a Class 5 student took place by three teachers, including the head mistress, of a government school. The assault happened because the student returned to the class 5 minutes late after taking permission to use the toilet.

The victim's parents filed a complaint with Bagaha SDM and Bathwaria police station, and an investigation is underway. According to the complaint filed, the head mistress Sharita Devi granted the student 5 minutes to use the toilet, but when he returned 10 minutes later, she got angry and beat him. When the student argued, two other teachers, Krishna Kumar and Dharmendra Kumar, took him to a classroom, closed the door, and brutally assaulted him.

The victim told his parents about the incident on Thursday, and they immediately went to the school where they found him weeping. The parents lodged a written complaint against the three teachers at Bathwaria police station. The victim's father claimed that the head mistress had beaten his son out of anger as they had some dispute. The police have registered an FIR against the three teachers after medical examination and statements of other students, and further investigation is ongoing.