Govt school teacher booked for making student slap her classmates for wrong answers in Shimla
Shimla, Mar 25 (PTI): A female teacher of a government girls' school here has been booked on Tuesday for making a student slap her classmates who gave incorrect answers, police said.
Based on the complaint of a 10-year-old student, a case has been registered under Section 115 (2) of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (voluntarily causing hurt) and Section 75 of Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015 (cruelty to children), police said.
According to the complainant, on Monday afternoon, the teacher quizzed the class about meanings of Sanskrit words she had tasked them to memorise.
The complainant, who was also the class monitor, gave the correct answer, while 10-12 other students could not answer properly. The teacher then told her to slap those who failed to answer the question.
The student said she followed the instructions and slapped her classmates softly. The teacher, however, asked her to slap the girls hard. She even chided the student, saying, "You are the class monitor, you do not even know how to slap."
Two other girls who gave correct answers were also slapped, the student said.
The complainant said the behaviour of the teacher scared her. She added that the teacher often says, "You can say whatever you want to your parents, no one can do anything to me."
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Man kills woman lecturer, sets car ablaze; dies by suicide in Karnataka
Bengaluru (PTI): A 46-year-old man allegedly killed a woman lecturer by setting fire to the car with her inside, before dying by suicide; his severed body was found by railway police the next day, police said on Tuesday.
The deceased, identified as Ramanjinappa, a resident of Doddaballapura, was a contract worker in the tahsildar’s office, they said.
Police said the man, who was married and had apparently separated from his wife, was in an illicit relationship with a woman identified as Saroja, whose charred body was found inside a gutted car in an isolated area near the Bashetty Industrial Area in Doddaballapura taluk on the outskirts of Bengaluru.
Saroja was also married and had a son, police said.
According to police, on Saturday, the man allegedly borrowed a car from an acquaintance, claiming he had a medical emergency and needed to visit a hospital.
Citing preliminary investigations, a senior police officer said the man picked up the lecturer from a bus stop in Devanahalli. The two spent a couple of hours driving around Nandi Hills and nearby areas.
Later, they reached a secluded spot in Doddaballapura, where it is suspected that an argument ensued inside the car, following which he allegedly hit her on the head with a hammer, the officer said.
He then set the car on fire, reportedly using petrol, and is believed to have died by suicide thereafter, police said.
Locals who saw the burning car alerted the police and fire department, who rushed to the spot, extinguished the fire, and found the woman’s body completely charred inside the vehicle, the officer added.
His severed body was found near railway tracks in Bidadi by the railway police on Sunday, he said.
The motive and whether the crime was premeditated or impulsive are under investigation, he said.
Saroja’s husband filed a complaint accusing Ramanjinappa of killing her, police said, adding that a detailed investigation is underway to establish the exact sequence of events.
