Kolkata: A ten-year-old student in a primary school in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district died here yesterday, days after he was thrashed by his teacher, who allegedly beat him with a stick and banged his head against a wall.
Bapi Joardar, a student of Nirdeshkhali Notunpara Sishu Siksha Kendra at Basanti, died at the state-run SSKM hospital.
“He had a head injury and died of excessive haemorrhage at around 4.45 am,” said a hospital official.
The teacher, Champa Mondal, has been arrested and a case of culpable homicide not amounting to murder slapped against her.
The victim’s family said Joardar was pulled up by Mondal for throwing bags across the classroom during class. However, Mondal claimed that the mother of another student had complained that Joardar regularly beat up her son.
“I tried to stop him when I saw him quarrelling with a classmate. I never wanted to kill him.”
A student said Mondal banged the heads of the two students against each other. “Then she beat Joardar with a stick and also banged his head against a wall.”
The student hid the matter from his parents when he went home, but later started vomiting and fell unconscious. He was taken to a hospital in the district and moved to Calcutta National Medical College and Hospital when his condition worsened. He was then taken to SSKM hospital.
IANS
