A case was registered against a school headmaster for allegedly torturing a differently-abled minor Dalit girl and her father after she touched the vegetable pan at the school in Barabanki. The case was registered after a fortnight as the accused was found prima facie guilty in a probe.
The girl belonging to the SC community is a class II student of Icholi Primary School of Tikaitnagar police station area. Her mother claimed that on August 29 last, the girl inadvertently touched the vegetable pan during the mid-day meal break.
“Headmaster Mohammad Amin poured boiling vegetables on her hands and she sustained burns. As the girl started crying, the headmaster abused her and beat her before shooing her away,” her family members alleged.
On seeing his daughter’s condition, the girl’s father confronted the headmaster but the latter abused him too. Later, her father complained to the authorities concerned. Barabanki BSA Santosh Kumar Dev Pandey ordered a probe into the case by the block education officer of Poordalai.
On the basis of the report of the officer, Mohammad Amin was found prima facie guilty of negligence in distribution of mid-day meal, lax supervision and indiscipline in the school and was suspended, officials said. Also, in view of the seriousness of the matter, a case was registered at Tikaitnagar police station under the SC/ST Act following the complaint of the girl’s mother.
Meanwhile, in Badaun, a 5-year-old boy died as he fell off the terrace of his house after being attacked by monkeys in Jagat village of the district, police said on Tuesday. Nikhil (5) was rushed to a hospital where he succumbed to injuries.
According to Nikhil’s father Nekram, the boy was playing alone on the terrace when he was attacked by monkeys on Monday evening. He fell down while trying to run away and fell unconscious. SHO of Alapur police station Sanjay Singh said: “The minor boy died after he accidentally fell off the roof of his house. His family refused to send the body for autopsy. Since it was an accident, we did not force the family.”
Earlier, a 52-year-old farmer had died in a monkey attack at Kadar Chowk in the town on August 31 while a 35-year-old woman was killed after she also fell off the roof of her house in a bid to escape a monkey attack in July.