Dalit pupil overwhelmed up for ingesting water from principal’s bottle in UP’s Bijnor

Express News Service

LUCKNOW: A farewell celebration took an unpleasant flip when a Dalit pupil was allegedly overwhelmed up for ingesting water from the bottle meant for the principal in Bijnor in western UP on Sunday.

The sufferer, a category XI pupil, was allegedly overwhelmed up, abused, and compelled to go away the venue, sources stated.

The farewell celebration was organised by the category XI college students for his or her seniors, at Chamandevi Inter College in Sirwasuchand village in Bijnor district.

According to the police, the doorways of the corridor — the place the occasion was going down— had been locked as soon as the college students had been in they usually weren’t supplied with water bottles.

In the grievance lodged by the sufferer, he stated that when he felt thirsty, he picked up the water bottle to take a couple of sips. At that second, the principal’s brother and his buddy began thrashing and abusing him utilizing casteist remarks saying that it was the water bottle meant for the principal. They additionally compelled him to go away the corridor.

Based on a grievance lodged by the scholar, Afzalgarh police have registered a case towards principal Dr Yogendra Kumar and two others underneath the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act and part 323 (punishment for voluntarily inflicting harm) of the Indian Penal Code. 

The police sources stated {that a} discover could be served to the principal and two others named within the FIR and they might be interrogated. They could be required to look in courtroom when summoned. 

The faculty principal nonetheless denied the fees. He claimed that after the occasion started, all college students had been requested to go away their cellphones with a school worker, however that pupil refused to conform and video-graphed the occasion. The principal additional claimed that for the reason that pupil flouted the orders, his cell phone was seized. He denied beating up the scholar.

LUCKNOW: A farewell celebration took an unpleasant flip when a Dalit pupil was allegedly overwhelmed up for ingesting water from the bottle meant for the principal in Bijnor in western UP on Sunday.

The sufferer, a category XI pupil, was allegedly overwhelmed up, abused, and compelled to go away the venue, sources stated.

The farewell celebration was organised by the category XI college students for his or her seniors, at Chamandevi Inter College in Sirwasuchand village in Bijnor district.

According to the police, the doorways of the corridor — the place the occasion was going down— had been locked as soon as the college students had been in they usually weren’t supplied with water bottles.

In the grievance lodged by the sufferer, he stated that when he felt thirsty, he picked up the water bottle to take a couple of sips. At that second, the principal’s brother and his buddy began thrashing and abusing him utilizing casteist remarks saying that it was the water bottle meant for the principal. They additionally compelled him to go away the corridor.

Based on a grievance lodged by the scholar, Afzalgarh police have registered a case towards principal Dr Yogendra Kumar and two others underneath the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act and part 323 (punishment for voluntarily inflicting harm) of the Indian Penal Code. 

The police sources stated {that a} discover could be served to the principal and two others named within the FIR and they might be interrogated. They could be required to look in courtroom when summoned. 

The faculty principal nonetheless denied the fees. He claimed that after the occasion started, all college students had been requested to go away their cellphones with a school worker, however that pupil refused to conform and video-graphed the occasion. The principal additional claimed that for the reason that pupil flouted the orders, his cell phone was seized. He denied beating up the scholar.