Click to play videoJaipur: In a shocking incident, a XII Standard boy from Udaipur died early Thursday morning after reportedly being brutally beaten up by his teacher.
Seventeen-year-old Arpit Kanwariya's invigilator -- a Sanskrit teacher named Indira Samar -- beat him with a bamboo stick for keeping his 'legs out of the desk' while writing a test on July 26.
The teacher has since then been suspended. The police have registered a case of murder on a complaint by the boy's parents.
Says a student at the school, Rajan Purohit, "His leg was stretched out of his bench, simply because the bench was so small and he could not adjust there. But the teacher came and started beating him with a bamboo stick."
While the family tries to come to terms with the loss, his parents say they want justice.
Arpit's parents say he was hospitalised after he came back bruised from the school on July 26, where he underwent treatment till Wednesday night.
Says Arpit's father, Sampat Kanwariya, "He said he had fever. He didn't tell us what had happened. There was a small clinic. We took him there thinking he would be okay, but even he didn't know that there was an internal injury. Then on Wednesday we brought him to the orthopaedic department of this hospital and they told us it was a case of surgery. Then we came to know he had an internal infection and he died at around 5 am."
And what is even more shocking is that the teacher Indira Samar has gone absconding ever since.
Predictably, the principal of the school, Aruna Mehta, is denying a connection between the boy's death and the beating by the teacher.
"I do not know the confirmed cause of death. We will intimate the media as soon as we have a confirmed report," says she.
The boy's post mortem report has confirmed death due to internal injury and the police have registered a case under Section 302 amounting to murder against the teacher and the school management after a complaint by the boys parents.
(With inputs from Hemendra Sharma in Udaipur)
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