Teacher booked after ‘thrashing’ boy, ‘banging’ his head against a bench in classroom

Pune | Monday | 19th March, 2018

Summary:

An officer from Bhosari police station said: “We know that the boy had spelt a word incorrectly in his class workbook. A teacher from a school in Indrayaninagar in Bhosari has been booked for allegedly thrashing a six-year-old child with a wooden duster and stick and banging his head against a bench after the student misspelt a word in his class workbook. In the afternoon class, initially, the teacher hit him with a duster on the head and then hit him on the back with a wooden stick. On Thursday evening, Sumit Chavan, a resident of Dhawade Vasti in Bhosari, told his parents that he had been beaten up by the teacher earlier that day. She then held him by his hair and banged the boy’s head against a wooden bench, a couple of times.”He added: “We have booked the teacher and we have been told by the school authorities that she has been suspended..