Police have arrested the headmaster of a Sevashram in Koraput district for allegedly thrashing a Class-III student leading to severe injury to her right eye, besides sexually abusing a Class-VII student.
Both students have left the Badahanjar Sevashram in Kulabir panchayat under Nandapur block for their homes, sources said.
Police on Thursday arrested the accused headmaster Arjun Pradhan after they were informed by the District Child Protection Officer about the allegations.
last Monday, the girls had gone to the nearby river to play after school hours. Upon their return, they were censured by the headmaster while a Class-III student was badly beaten up by him.
After the news spread, scores of villagers gheraoed the school and warned Pradhan to desist from such activities.
Child Protection Officer and Childline officials had questioned the headmaster and the students. The students had alleged that Pradhan regularly gave them corporal punishment.