Teacher beats up kid at MCD school
New Delhi, May 1 2012, DHNS:
Eleven-year-old Fardeen, a class 5 student at a government school, was left with an eye injury and bruises after he was allegedly beaten up by a teacher who suspected that he had broken a windowpane.
Ramjit Yadav, a teacher at Municipal Corporation of Delhi-run primary school at Jahangirpuri in north-west Delhi, had beaten up the the child, hitting him with his fists and kicking him, around 3:30 pm on April 28, according to the complaint lodged with the police.
The boy was kept locked up inside a classroom for two hours and he returned home around 6 pm.
“The child has a serious eye injury, severe pain and bruises on his body. We lodged a complaint in the evening at the Jahangirpuri police station. The police were reluctant to file a complaint in the beginning,” said child’s father Navisher Mallick.
Mallick took his son to Babu Jagjivan Ram Memorial Hospital in Jahangirpuri for medical treatment. A medico-legal certificate was issued which indicated that he was beaten up.
“Despite repeated requests, the police were not inclined to register an FIR against the accused school teacher initially,” said Akbar Ali, member of Chetanalaya, a child rights NGO which helped Mallick lodge the complaint.
“Moreover, despite bringing all these facts to the notice of Kanwar Singh, additional director of education, MCD, no action has been taken so far. He kept saying that the department would take action,” added Ali.
The parents said the school’s principal refused to take action against the teacher when they met him on Tuesday. “The principal has challenged us to do whatever we want,” said Mallick.
The MCD education officer was not available for comment despite repeated attempts. Advocate Ashok Agarwal has also written a letter to the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights.
He said in the letter that it was a clear case of grievous hurt and wrongful confinement under the Indian Penal Code, and also violated the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009.
Ramjit Yadav, a teacher at Municipal Corporation of Delhi-run primary school at Jahangirpuri in north-west Delhi, had beaten up the the child, hitting him with his fists and kicking him, around 3:30 pm on April 28, according to the complaint lodged with the police.
The boy was kept locked up inside a classroom for two hours and he returned home around 6 pm.
“The child has a serious eye injury, severe pain and bruises on his body. We lodged a complaint in the evening at the Jahangirpuri police station. The police were reluctant to file a complaint in the beginning,” said child’s father Navisher Mallick.
Mallick took his son to Babu Jagjivan Ram Memorial Hospital in Jahangirpuri for medical treatment. A medico-legal certificate was issued which indicated that he was beaten up.
“Despite repeated requests, the police were not inclined to register an FIR against the accused school teacher initially,” said Akbar Ali, member of Chetanalaya, a child rights NGO which helped Mallick lodge the complaint.
“Moreover, despite bringing all these facts to the notice of Kanwar Singh, additional director of education, MCD, no action has been taken so far. He kept saying that the department would take action,” added Ali.
The parents said the school’s principal refused to take action against the teacher when they met him on Tuesday. “The principal has challenged us to do whatever we want,” said Mallick.
The MCD education officer was not available for comment despite repeated attempts. Advocate Ashok Agarwal has also written a letter to the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights.
He said in the letter that it was a clear case of grievous hurt and wrongful confinement under the Indian Penal Code, and also violated the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009.
Source: Deccan Herald
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