Sonepat (Haryana), July 21: Angry over alleged thrashing by a school teacher, 34 students ran away from their school here after scaling its wall in the night but returned two days later. The students of Jawahar Navodaya school in Butana village, who left on Friday night and returned last evening, went to the regional centre of the school at Jaipur to lodge their complaint with the administrative officer.

The school principal filed an FIR with police about disappearance of the students. In the FIR, he said hooting by rival supporters during a cricket match between students of class XI and class XII on July 18 led to a quarrel.

As a result, the students were rebuked and some beaten up by a school teacher, the principal said in the FIR. When the principal was informed about this, he gave orders for providing medical treatment to the students, the FIR said.

But the students fled in the night by scaling the wall of the school, it said.

Bureau Report