Teacher thrashes student with cane at Ujjain school; probe ordered after video goes viral

UJJAIN: A video showing a teacher repeatedly thrashing a pupil with a cane astatine a residential schoolhouse tally by Maharshi Sandipani Ved Vidya Pratishthan successful Ujjain surfaced connected Saturday and rapidly went viral connected societal media, prompting constabulary to initiate a preliminary probe into the incident.The clip, astir 51 seconds long, shows a teacher beating a kid wrong what appears to beryllium an bureau country portion questioning him astir sleeping connected different student’s bed. The kid is seen writhing successful symptom arsenic the teacher continues striking him with a cane aggregate times.In the video, a fewer different adults contiguous successful the country look to beryllium watching the incidental without intervening. Sources associated with the instauration identified the teacher seen successful the clip arsenic Samveda teacher Dattadas Shevde.

Police said the incidental is suspected to person taken spot astir March 15 astatine nighttime connected the residential field of the institute, which provides Vedic acquisition and hosts students from antithetic parts of the country.According to section sources, the pupil had already gone to slumber erstwhile helium was called to the bureau and allegedly beaten.Chintaman constabulary presumption in-charge Hemraj Yadav said authorities person taken enactment of the viral video and person started gathering details.

“We person travel crossed the video circulating connected societal media. We are verifying the facts and collecting accusation astir the teacher and the pupil involved. Further ineligible enactment volition beryllium taken based connected the findings,” Yadav said.Attempts to interaction the teacher seen successful the video were unsuccessful. When reached by phone, helium reportedly disconnected the telephone aft learning that it was from the media.Repeated attempts to interaction Virupaksha Jaddipal, caput of the Maharshi Sandipani Ved Vidya Pratishthan, besides did not elicit immoderate effect astatine the clip of filing this report. An FIR has been registered against the accused teacher Dattadas Shewde nether sections 115, 296 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and Section 75 of the Juvenile Justice Act.