A body of a Class-X student of Belkurdar village under the Bonei police station in Sundargarh district was dug out from soil on Saturday, after eight days his death.
The police swung into action a day after father of victim, Murli Bhumij (15), lodged a complaint against the NCC teacher of his school, Raja Dharanidhar High School. After postmortem, the police handed over the body to his family members. Then, the body was buried again.
Police are now conducting further investigations.
As per the FIR lodged by the deceased’s father Manglu Bhumij, NCC teacher Ramesh Chandra Sethi had forced Murli to do sit-ups on October 22. Thereafter, Murli had fallen ill and had gone to his residence.
Later, he died while undergoing treatment at the VIMSAR, Burla on November 2. His body was buried in the village grave yard.
The father alleged that his son died after being beaten by NCC teacher Sethi.