Teacher at Vedic school in MP's Ujjain booked for caning student in hostel
Ujjain (PTI): A teacher at Maharshi Sandipani Ved Vidya Pratishthan in Madhya Pradesh's Ujjain city was booked on Sunday for allegedly beating up a student, a video of which went viral on social media, a police official said.
A case under sections 115 and 296, among others, of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) was registered against Datt Das Shevde on the complaint of the student, Chintaman police station house officer (SHO) Hemraj Yadav told PTI.
In the video, the teacher can be seen beating up the student with a cane unfazed by the latter's pleading to spare him.
A source said the 51-second clip is from the facility's hostel, adding that the teacher handed down corporal punishment as the student had slept on someone else's bed.
Maharshi Sandipani Rashtriya Veda Vidya Pratishthan (MSRVVP), under the Ministry of Education, runs schools for the preservation, conservation and development of Vedic Studies. It has around 450 institutes across India where students spend seven years studying the Vedas and subjects like Sanskrit, English, Maths and Social Science.
Attempts to get the school management's version were in vain.
Hostel Warden: Dattadas Shevde
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Maharshi Sandipani Rashtriya Vedavidya Pratishthan
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Karnataka: Woman, son killed after motorcycle collides with stationary tipper
Mangaluru (Karnataka) (PTI): A woman and her son were killed after their motorcycle collided with a stationary tipper truck in Dakshina Kannada district, police said on Wednesday.
The accident occurred on Mahaveer College road in Moodbidri municipal limits in this district on Tuesday evening, they said.
The deceased were identified as 68-year-old Prema Shetty and her 30-year-old son Srinivas Shetty, residents of Neeralkatte in Gantalkatte, police said.
Srinivas was a daily-wage labourer, they said.
According to police, the two were travelling on motorcycle from Moodbidri towards Gantalkatte when they allegedly rammed into the tipper truck parked on the roadside near a petrol bunk.
Prema died on the spot, while Srinivas sustained critical injuries and later succumbed at a hospital, a senior police officer said.
The family had suffered a similar tragedy last year when Prema's younger son died in a rickshaw accident.
Moodbidri police are investigating.
