The headmaster of a Government primary school here was arrested on Thursday allegedly for beating a Class-I girl on Wednesday.
Sources said headmaster Rabindra Kumar Malik (50) of Patitapabana Government Primary School at Gopabandhupali on Wednesday beat Sumi Bag (5), a resident of Gopabandhupali in class room.
Infuriated over the fact that the kid was not good at studies, Malik went berserk and beat her black and blue. The girl narrated before her parents about the incident. On Thursday, the father of victim child lodged a FIR in Plant site police station.