Uttar Pradesh: Principal beats two students, sends them home; children go missing

A Class 5 student allegedly committed suicide at his home in the Shahpur area in Gorakhpur after he was “punished” by his class teacher.

Uttar Pradesh: Principal beats two students, sends them home; children go missing

Jaunpur: Two students of Maa Durgaji Senior Secondary Vidyalaya in Uttar Pradesh's Jaunpur have gone missing after the principal allegedly beat them up and asked them to go home during school hours.

Speaking to news agency ANI, father of one of the missing student said, when his child didn't return home, he went to the school to enquire about him. The school authorities informed him that his child was asked to go home at 12 noon.

Mother of one of the missing children said the authorities told her child was also asked to leave school at 12. The distressed mother said she would file an FIR against the school.

Meanwhile, District Inspector of schools, Jaunpur, assured of strict action against the Maa Durgaji Senior Secondary Vidyalaya management.

Recently, few incidents highlighting school authorities' careless approach have come to the fore.

A Class 5 student allegedly committed suicide at his home in the Shahpur area in Gorakhpur after he was “punished” by his class teacher. Navneet (11), a student of St. Anthony School, consumed poison on September 15 after his class teacher “punished” him, his father Ravi Prakash said in a complaint to the police.

Pradyuman Thakur was found dead, lying in a pool of blood, with his throat slit in the washroom of Ryan International school in Bhondsi area on Sohna Road on September 8, 2017.