Last Updated: August 27, 2022, 16:28 IST
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The education department has suspended the accused teacher (Representative image)
Bagdi SHO Bhanwarlal said the case was registered under Section 151 of the CrPC on a complaint lodged by the student’s family members and he has been taken into custody
A government schoolteacher was taken into custody and suspended for allegedly thrashing a 14-year-old Dalit student in Rajasthan’s Pali district, police said Friday. In a similar incident in Rajasthan’s Dausa district, a Class 5 Dalit student was beaten up by a schoolteacher, police said. Police have registered cases against both teachers.
In Pali district, a case of alleged assault on a Dalit student was registered against Bhanwar Singh, a teacher of Government Higher Secondary School, on Thursday night, Bagdi SHO Bhanwarlal said. He said the case was registered under Section 151 of the CrPC on a complaint lodged by the student’s family members and he has been taken into custody.
The education department has suspended the accused teacher. In Dausa, a case was registered against a government schoolteacher, Rameshwar Gurjar, for thrashing a Class 5th Dalit student. Manpur Circle Officer Santram said the incident took place on August 6. The student was examined and investigation is under way.
Earlier this month, a nine-year-old Dalit boy was thrashed by a schoolteacher in Rajasthan’s Jalore district for allegedly touching a water pot meant for upper castes. The boy later died while undergoing treatment at a hospital.
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