A female student was hospitalised on Saturday in Karnataka's Ramanagara district after she was allegedly made to clean the toilet in her school with acid. The parents of the nine-year-old girl have demanded action against the school's headmaster and one other teacher over the incident.
According to news agency IANS, the incident allegedly took place in the Tubinagere Village Primary School in Magadi taluk. Headmaster Siddalingaiah and teacher Basavaraju had reportedly given the victim acid and bleaching powder and asked her to wash the school toilet.
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The girl later started complaining of uneasiness, following which she was rushed to the taluk hospital in Magadi town by her parents, IANS said in its report. When the doctors inquired, the girl told her parents about the teachers forcing her to clean the school toilet.
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According to the doctors, the girl had fallen sick after coming in contact with acid while cleaning the toilet. The parents are insisting on suspension of the guilty.
