Another Ryan School horror: Class 4 student thrashed by teachers

Parents of a class 4 student of Ryan International School in Jamalpur, Ludhiana on Thursday alleged that their son was brutally beaten with sticks by two school teachers.

Jaswinder Singh, father of the victim, said that his son Mansukh was allegedly beaten by the teachers after he got into a fight with a fellow student.

Singh said he was out of the town when his son called him up and narrated the entire incident after which the former urged the principal of the school to take cognisance.

Singh also accused the principal of turning a deaf ear to his woes.

“After the reply of the principal, I asked my son to get a medical check-up. The teachers who thrashed my son have left the city,” Singh said.

“The principal told us to leave the matter, but we want to take action against them and will go to police,” he added.

The 10-year old, Mansukh who has marks on his neck and back said that his Physical Training teacher Raman called him in the teachers’ room during recess and thrashed him with stick, along with another teacher.

“I did not do anything. I just had a fight with another student of school, who pushed me and in return I pushed him too. His tooth broke during our fight,” Mansukh said.

Meanwhile, the principal of the school, Gurpal Anand claimed that the child was not touched by any of the teachers.

However, Anand said that the child was suspended from the school for one month after he got into a brawl with another student.

“The teachers are alleging they haven’t even touched the child, I can assure you. He was suspended from the school due to disciplinary action and now they have got frustrated due to this and doing such thing, which is very wrong,” she said.

Anand even said that she herself met the child after he was suspended and told him that he was wrong by hitting another child and hence, was being suspended.

“I met him in the afternoon; he did not say anything to me. If something like this would have happened he would have told me,” she said.

The parents of the child have filed a case against the teachers in the Jamalpur Police station.

“We have received the complaint and we will take action immediately. We have also received the medical report,” the police inspector confirmed.

This is the third case against the Ryan International School.

Earlier in the January 2016, six-year-old Devansh Kacrora’s body was found unconscious and afloat at Delhi’s Ryan International School water tank.

Last month, the body of seven-year-old, a student of Class 2 of Gurugram’s Ryan International School, was found inside the school’s toilet with his throat slit.