Indian school principal nabbed for beating to death pupil over stolen pencil
Police officers in India have taken a school principal into custody for allegedly being accessory to beating to death of an 11-year-old male pupil over a stolen pencil at a school in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh.
The principal was detained on Thursday for "culpable homicide not amounting to murder," an indictment that carries a maximum sentence of 10 years imprisonment, said police superintendent Abdul Hameed, noting that the pupil’s teacher had admitted to beating the boy at school after finding him with a pencil that a fellow student had lost.
"In our initial questioning, the principal confessed that he slapped and punched the young boy after the missing pencil was found on him," Hameed said.
The child later started vomiting blood and succumbed to his injuries on the way to hospital.
The school in the small town of Barabanki was a private institution for educating underprivileged kids.
Meanwhile, a detailed medical report into the child's injuries is reportedly in the process as part of the legal probe into the death.
This is while corporal punishment is prohibited in schools across India, although there have been many reports of student abuse.
In November 2014, a 16-year-old student committed suicide after his teacher allegedly mocked and beat him for failing to complete his class assignments. He left a suicide note blaming the teacher.
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