HYDERABAD: Police arrested a school principal yesterday after a video showing him allegedly thrashing three blind children with a cane was posted on the Internet.
Police said the principal, who is also visually impaired, and a teacher were arrested in the southern city of Kakinada amid public outrage over the incident.
The video showed three children at a boarding school in the state of Andhra Pradesh cowering, wailing and begging their attacker to stop hitting them.
Police said the incident took place on Friday at the Greenfield Residential School for the blind in Kakinada.
“We registered a case against the correspondent (the teacher) and the principal,” deputy police superintendent Vijay Bhaskar Reddy said.
“Three students were handled (roughly),” Reddy said.
The fuzzy video footage appears to show the principal holding three little boys down one by one and whacking them with a cane as they crouched and begged for mercy. The two accused were set to appear in court tomorrow after police filed preliminary child cruelty charges over the beatings.
It was not immediately clear who took the video.
After the images appeared, angry parents and other locals yesterday stormed the school and beat up the principal, according to footage aired on television. AFP
