Four students of a high school in Sadar upazila have been hospitalised being allegedly beaten up by a nearby primary school’s headmaster and a teacher there together over trivial matter, local education officer confirmed.
The incident of corporal punishment took place at Hajarbigha Chutalabangula Primary School around 2:30pm on Tuesday.
All of the victims – Rakib, Isha Ahmed, Md Kibria and Limon – are class-VI students of Hajarbigha Chutalabangula High School. Both schools are situated on a premise.
The injured were undergoing treatment in Barguna General Hospital where they remained admitted as of filing this report yesterday.
Witness sources said the primary school’s headmaster Dilip Kumar Nath dragged out the students of their classroom after tiffin period on charge of breaking his motorcycle’s lights parked on the premise and confined them to a room where he along with another teacher named Noren beat up them mercilessly with cane.
When their condition appeared to be bad, the teachers got admitted them to the hospital.
When contacted, the high school’s headmaster Mir Mizanur Rahman said: “Since the students are guilty of breaking the lights, it is my responsibility resolve the matter because they are my students. Headmaster Dilip Kumar caused the incident without any logical reason.”
On the other hand, Dilip Kumar said the students broke his motorbike’s lights and that was why he just slapped them.
In a query on confining the pupils to a room and hurting them there, Dilip denied the allegation.
When asked, Barguna Primary Education Officer Md Toiubur Rahman acknowledged the allegation, telling that the incident was really remorseful.
“I will take legal action against the teachers on filing complaint in this regard,” the officer added.
On January 13, 2011, the High Court banned all sorts of corporal punishment such as caning, beating, chaining, forced-haircut and confinement in all primary and secondary schools and madrasahs stating that the penalty is a violation of children’s rights.
