TURA, May 3 � The principal of a school in Tura absconded on Friday after severely beating up five children while two more of his colleagues were also in the dock for the incident on April 30.
According to the FIR filed by the family of a child, the principal, DV Maharaj, was accused of beating up the five children after parents compained to him against two teachers � Bijoy Hajong and Ajanta Burman � of Goudiya Vedanta Vidyapeeth School, beating up their wards. All five of the beaten students were from Class X.
�The teacher lost his cool after he found the five children singing in the class room during an off period. He started beating up the students. Later, after school, he again beat up the boys with a stick, hitting them on their head and ear.
The next day, during school assembly, the principal and Ajanta Burman, again started beating up the five children right in front of their shocked parents who had come to complain of the cruelty.
�I was shocked beyond belief when he began to hit my son right in front of me. To think that he was a man of God and was a preacher in the Math besides being the principal. What kind of human beats children so mercilessly and that too for such a trivial reason�, said one of the aggrieved parents.
The parents were in for another ordeal when the principal accused the parents of failing their wards and suspended the children for seven days. He later absconded from the town.
�This is insane. He should be taken into custody at the earliest,� said another parent.
The parents rushed to the police and a medical check up was done on the children before an FIR was filed on Saturday against the principal and the other two teachers.
The case is under investigation. However, no arrests have been made till the filing of the report.