• Source:JND

Hyderabad News: A government school principal has been accused of directing senior students to physically assault a younger boy as punishment for a suspected theft in Hyderabad. The incident occurred at Kompally Government High School and has triggered widespread anger among parents and child rights groups.

According to the complaint, Krishna, the school’s headmaster who also serves as the in-charge Mandal Education Officer (MEO) for Dundigal, allegedly instructed a group of Class 10 students to beat a 13-year-old boy after a dispute involving bicycles at the school’s cycle stand. The victim has been identified as Phanindra Surya, a Class 7 student.

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According to a NDTV report, the trouble began on Monday when a teacher, Madhu, asked Surya to go to the cycle shed to check on the parked bicycles. Another teacher, Chary, spotted the boy there and assumed he was tampering with the cycles. He reportedly took Surya to the headmaster’s office, where instead of verifying the facts, Headmaster Krishna allegedly called in nine senior students and ordered them to “discipline” the younger boy by beating him with sticks.

Surya returned home in pain and informed his parents about the assault. His father, Shiva Ramakrishna, found injuries on his son’s back and took him to a hospital for treatment. Following a formal complaint from the family, Basheerbagh police registered a case under the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act and relevant sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.

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Inspector K Vijaya Vardhan confirmed that investigations are underway against the principal and the two teachers involved. Child rights activists have condemned the assault, calling it a blatant violation of the Right to Education Act, which bans corporal punishment. They have demanded that Krishna be immediately suspended from his positions as headmaster and MEO.


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