In a shocking incident, a principal and another employee of a blind school were held for mercilessly beating up three minor visually impaired students.
The incident, came to light three days later after somebody released the footage of the incident to the media. The incident has created such an angry reaction that the police had to arrest school Principal Srinivas, who is also visually-challenged and school Secretary KV Rao. The district administration took over the administration of the private school.
The incident took place on July 18 in Green Fields School at Thimmapur village under Kakinada Rural Mandal in East Godavari district. After the clips of the incident, showing the Principal and the Secretary brutally beating up the minor students with a stick was shown on a local TV channel, angry parents and activists of a student organisation attacked the school, damaged the furniture and beat up the secretary.
District collector Neetu Kumari Prasad and the district education officer Srinivas Reddy accompanied by Police visited the school and recorded the statement of the three affected students — Joseph, Sai and Surendar. The officials also found marks of beating on the bodies of the students.
later, on recommendation of the officials, police took the principal and the secretary of into custody. Initially, the principal denied any such incident but when countered with the visuals, he defended saying when students show indiscipline and create trouble, they have to be punished. “We have ordered an enquiry into the incident. After getting the report, we will take the necessary action,” the collector said.