Bhubaneswar

Teacher absconds after case registered for caning kid

PNS

A teacher of  a  Government school, who   had  allegedly beaten  a class 1 student  of Sundargarh district on Tuesday and  the student had received  injuries , absconded following police registered a case on the complaint of the mother of the victim.

Sources said Masina Bada (40), wife of Dhelu Bada, a native of Timna village under Bargaon police station, lodged a complaint with police on Tuesday evening. As per the complaint, her son Sanjib Bada (6), a student of class I of Timna Upper  Primary school,  had gone to school on Tuesday morning.  Teacher  Dilip Kumar  Behera  had  reportedly asked  questions  to  Sanjib in  class  but  he  could  not  reply. On this, teacher Behera beat Sanjib with a stick severely following which he received injuries on his back and right hand. After returning from school on Tuesday afternoon, Sanjib told the incident to his mother.

Masina with the help of a local Anganwadi worker took her son to a health centre from where the doctors sent him to the Bargaon hospital. The Bargaon police registered the case.