In a bizarre incident, a primary school girl student was forced to strip for not completing her homework in Anpara area of Sonebhadra. The girl’s parents later complained with the local administration after which the principal was suspended and an enquiry was ordered.
Block Education Officer in Sonebhadra Dileep Kumar said that some teachers allegedly forced a girl student to take off her skirt for not remembering a Sanskrit shloka at Electricity Board Girl Junior High School. After the shocked girl narrated her tarvail to her parents, the latter reported the matter to the District Magistrate.
The parents write that other girls too were warned of similar treatment if they did not complete their homework. The teachers also thrashed the girl for not following orders.
Taking serious cognizance of the complaint, the administration has suspended the principal identified as Meena Singh and investigations are underway. Meanwhile in Baghpat, a seven-year-old girl was kidnapped, raped and murdered while a woman was hacked to death by her husband in Meerut over suspicion of infiedelity.
In Aahirsighawali (Bagpat),a seven-year-old girl went to attend a marriage in her neighour Pratap’s house on Sunday evening and went missing thereafter. Noticing her disappearance, the parents launched a hunt and later complained to the local police.
During the search at night, the victim’s body was found lying naked in a sugarcane fiaeld owned by Surendra. Circumstantial evidences suggested that she had been raped and murdered. A case was registered and efforts are on to nab the miscreants.
In Meerut, a 32-year-old Dalit woman of Bara hamlet of Babugarh in Hapur was married to Rahul of Rajpura in Ganganagar (Meerut) about a year back.