Child dies due to caning in Jharkhand, teacher suspended

A school teacher was suspended after a class I student died allegedly because of caning by him, police said on Monday.

The child's parents filed a first information report alleging that their son died on Sunday because of the corporal punishment by the teacher of Rajkiya Ukramit Madhya Vidyalaya in Chano Block though postmortem report showed Tuberculosis as the reason behind his death, Superintendent of Police (Rural) Surendranath Jha said.

Though police were yet to arrest the teacher identified as Arshad Hussain, he was suspended from the school under the rule against corporal punishment, Ranchi District Superintendent of Education Jayant Mishra said.

In the FIR, parents have alleged that a week ago, the child was admitted to a hospital after he complained of backache because of the canning by Hussain.

They also alleged that the boy could not go to school after the incident because of ill-health and died on Sunday.

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