The Delhi police on Friday arrested a teacher for allegedly hitting a student with a pair of scissors and then pushing her down from the first floor of the school building. The incident took place at the Prathmik Vidyalaya in central Delhi’s Model Basti area.
The girl, a Class 5 student, who was admitted to the Bara Hindu Rao hospital, now shifted to Safdarjung Hospital and is stable and out of danger, police said.
The incident led to a huge uproar in the area with a huge crowd gathering near the school. However, the police soon reached the site and brought the situation under control.
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“The class teacher, namely Geeta Deshwal, hit the student, Vandana, with a small pair of scissors and threw her from the first-floor classroom,” DCP (central) Shweta Chauhan said, adding that a case under Section 307 of the IPC (attempt to murder) would be filed based on eyewitness statements.
According to the victim student, she didn’t do anything wrong. She further added that the teacher hit her with a pair of scissors and then pulled her hair and threw her from the first floor of the building.
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The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has also launched a probe into the incident. Speaking to news agency PTI, a senior MCD official said, “The teacher has been detained by police. The MCD has also suspended her with immediate effect. Further investigation is being conducted by the department”. It further added that MCD will bear all expenditure on the medical treatment of the student.
Meanwhile, in a separate incident, a 12-year-old boy died of cardiac arrest in Madhya Pradesh’s Bhind. Manish Jatav, a class 4 student, had lunch with his brother and collapsed soon after he boarded his bus. He was rushed to a nearby hospital where doctors failed to revive him.