Express News Service
LUCKNOW: In an incident of corporal punishment, an teacher used an influence hand drilling machine to wound the hand of a Class V pupil after allegedly he didn’t reply the multiplication desk of two at Basic Primary Model School in Prem Nagar space of Kanpur on Thursday.
The incident got here to mild on Friday when the coed’s mother and father protested in entrance of the college demanding motion towards the teacher.
Amid the protest, Basic Education Officer (BSA) accosted the mother and father and tried to appease them. Subsequently, he introduced the termination of the teacher Anuj Pandey from service. Further, the BSA constituted a three-member committee to probe into the incident.
“A three-member committee has been formed to look into various aspects such as whether the child was hurt deliberately or accidentally and also the role of other teachers in hushing up the incident,” the BSA added.
Local sources mentioned that the nine-year-old boy was passing by way of the college library when the teacher, employed from a non-public establishment, was overseeing the repairing work with a power-driven hand-drilling machine in his hand.
On seeing the boy, the teacher stopped him and requested him to recite the desk of two which the coed failed to clarify accurately.
Following this, the teacher, Anuj, ran the drilling machine by way of the hand of the coed.
“Anuj Sir asked me to tell the table of two. As I failed to recite the table correctly, he got infuriated and ran the drilling machine on my left hand. One of the students Krishna standing beside me pulled the plug out to stop the machine but by then my hand had got injured,” the boy mentioned narrating the incident.
The faculty authorities tried to play the incident down and despatched the injured pupil with little first help.
“The school administration neither informed the higher authorities about the incident nor did they take any action against the instructor Anuj. Moreover, the injured child was not given an anti-Tetanus injection immediately after the incident,” mentioned one of many boy’s relations.
However, the college authorities knowledgeable the district training officer concerning the incident following protests by the kid’s mother and father on Friday.
LUCKNOW: In an incident of corporal punishment, an teacher used an influence hand drilling machine to wound the hand of a Class V pupil after allegedly he didn’t reply the multiplication desk of two at Basic Primary Model School in Prem Nagar space of Kanpur on Thursday.
The incident got here to mild on Friday when the coed’s mother and father protested in entrance of the college demanding motion towards the teacher.
Amid the protest, Basic Education Officer (BSA) accosted the mother and father and tried to appease them. Subsequently, he introduced the termination of the teacher Anuj Pandey from service. Further, the BSA constituted a three-member committee to probe into the incident.
“A three-member committee has been formed to look into various aspects such as whether the child was hurt deliberately or accidentally and also the role of other teachers in hushing up the incident,” the BSA added.
Local sources mentioned that the nine-year-old boy was passing by way of the college library when the teacher, employed from a non-public establishment, was overseeing the repairing work with a power-driven hand-drilling machine in his hand.
On seeing the boy, the teacher stopped him and requested him to recite the desk of two which the coed failed to clarify accurately.
Following this, the teacher, Anuj, ran the drilling machine by way of the hand of the coed.
“Anuj Sir asked me to tell the table of two. As I failed to recite the table correctly, he got infuriated and ran the drilling machine on my left hand. One of the students Krishna standing beside me pulled the plug out to stop the machine but by then my hand had got injured,” the boy mentioned narrating the incident.
The faculty authorities tried to play the incident down and despatched the injured pupil with little first help.
“The school administration neither informed the higher authorities about the incident nor did they take any action against the instructor Anuj. Moreover, the injured child was not given an anti-Tetanus injection immediately after the incident,” mentioned one of many boy’s relations.
However, the college authorities knowledgeable the district training officer concerning the incident following protests by the kid’s mother and father on Friday.