A 12-year-old schoolgirl died at Koibortopara area in Chittagong district’s Boalkhali upazila on Thursday night after suffering from fever for about a week after she was caned by her school teacher.
The deceased, Brishti Das, daughter of Ashutosh Das, was a class five student of Koibortopara Government Primary School, said Officer-in-Charge (OC) Md Shamsul Islam of Boalkhali police station.
He said an assistant teacher Babla Dutta caned Brishti at the classroom of the school on July 19 as she could not answer the teacher’s query of a lesson.
Being caned, Brishti fell sick from that day and was suffering from fever for the past one week, he also said adding that the family was running her treatment in the residence.
“But when her condition deteriorated on Thursday night they rushed her to a local upazila health complex, however, the ill-fated girl died on the way,” added the OC.
No complaint was lodged with Boalkhali police station in this connection till filing of this report while the OC said that they will take legal measures after filing of a particular complaint.