Three Tamil Nadu teachers suspended for beating student
Saturday July 21, 2012 05:37:19 PM, IANS
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Chennai: Three
teachers of a private school in Tamil Nadu have been suspended for
beating up a Class 9 student, the school's headmaster said
Saturday. He, however, denied that the teachers had made the boy
drink his urine.
"Education department officials conducted an inquiry at our school
today (Saturday). Three teachers have been suspended for beating
the student. But the allegation that they forced the student to
drink urine is false," U. Thangavel, headmaster of Sirumalar
Higher Secondary School in Perambalur district, around 260 km from
here, told IANS on the phone.
The suspended teachers were N. Karuppaiah, S. Sakthivel and Raja.
The name of the student, a minor, has been withheld for legal
reasons.
Speaking to reporters after the inquiry, Chief Educational Officer
Mallika said: "The teachers have been suspended for beating the
student. The allegation that the teachers forced him to drink
urine is false."
Thangavel said he was baffled about how the allegation of teachers
asking the student to drink urine cropped up. He said the boy too
had been changing his statements.
"Yesterday (Friday), he alleged that he was forced to drink urine
by the three teachers. Today, he said he passed urine when the
teachers beat him but did not drink it. It is not known whether
the boy was tutored to say that the teachers forced him to drink
his own urine," he said.
Thangavel said the incident happened inside the classroom and if
he had passed urine when the teachers beat him, other boys and the
teachers would have noticed.
"His classmates and teachers do not say anything about the boy
passing urine or the teachers forcing him to drink it," he said.
Thangavel said the boy had the habit of taking tobacco products
and the teachers had punished him for that.
However, another version doing rounds is that the boy had asked
permission to go to the toilet which the teachers initially denied
him but later asked him to pass urine under the tree and drink it.
The boy's father T. Desinguraja, who lives in Kumbakonam, told
IANS by phone: "The teachers beat my boy very badly. He is not
able to lie down on his back. He is undergoing treatment at the
same hospital like me. But my son did not drink urine."
A wood-cutter, Desinguraja is undergoing treatment at a government
hospital in Kumbakonam, around 260 km from here, after he
fractured his leg.
"My son hitch-hiked from Perambalur and came here Friday. His
hostel warden called us yesterday to check whether he had reached
home," he said.
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