Director of residential school beaten to death in Bihar

In yet another instances of mob justice in Bihar, the director of a private residential school in Bihar's Nalanda district was lynched by villagers on Sunday after bodies of two missing students of the hostel were found in a pond near the school.

Devender Prasad Sinha, director of the DPS school in Jagdishpur village in Nalanda was beaten to death by angry villagers, a district police official said.

Both students -- Sagar Kumar, 10, and Ravi Kumar,11,went missing from the school hostel on Saturday and their bodies were found on Sunday morning.

"Soon after bodies of two students were found in a pond, villagers attacked the

residential school, went on a rampage and set it ablaze," the police said.

"Prasad was beaten with bamboo and iron rods in presence of hundreds of people, and died while he was being taken to the local hospital," another police official said.

According to officials, Prasad was forcibly dragged from the school premises and brought to the road, where he was brutally attacked. 

Villagers also torched a school bus and another vehicle in the school premises.

Bihar police chief P K Thakur has ordered a probe into the incident. "The police will take action against those found guilty in the case after the probe," Additional Director General of Police Sunil Kumar said.