Principal and driver arrested for hanging child upside down in Panipat: scolded for not doing work

Principal and driver arrested for hanging child upside down in Panipat: scolded for not doing work

The police have taken major action in the case of a second-grade student being severely beaten, hung upside down, and threatened at Sarijan Public School in Panipat, Haryana. The police have arrested the school principal and driver. The accused have been identified as Principal Reena and Driver Ajay.

The police will present both accused in court and attempt to obtain remand. If remand is not granted, they could be sent to jail in judicial custody.

The child's only fault was that he failed to finish his work. The principal called the driver to reprimand him. The driver took the child to an upstairs room and hung him upside down from a window with ropes. He then slapped him repeatedly and made a video and uploaded it to social media.

When the child's family received the video, they went to the school with a complaint. The principal said he knew nothing about it. The family then went to the driver's house, but found no one there. From there, the family went directly to the Model Town police station.

Based on the complaint, the police have registered a case against the accused driver and principal under sections 115, 127(2), 351(2) of the Indian Penal Code, and 75 of the Juvenile Justice Act, 2015.

The student has been terrified since the incident. He is now reluctant to even go to school. His family is constantly counseling him.

Now, read the full story in detail...

Student studies in another classroom: Dolly, a woman, said she lives in Mukhija Colony. She has two children. Her eldest son, a 7-year-old boy, studies in the second grade at Srijan Public School in Virat Nagar. He was admitted to the school this year.

Mother saw the video on Instagram: The mother said she was shocked when she saw a video on Instagram on Saturday. In the video, her son was tied to a window in a school classroom.
Principal seen beating other children as well: In the second part of the video, the principal is seen slapping two young children. These two children were being beaten in front of other students. After watching the video, the woman called her husband and informed him. The family then rushed to the school and asked the principal about the video.

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The driver had tied the child on August 13th: School Principal Reena told the family that she did not know much about the video, but that her son had come home from work on August 13th. Due to the absence of a male teacher in the school, she had asked the school driver, Ajay, to scold the student.
The student told the story of the brutality: When the family and principal asked the student about the incident, he said that Ajay uncle hung him upside down from the window with a rope. After that, he was slapped repeatedly. Ajay also video-called his friends and showed the beating, took photos, and recorded a video.
The driver sent the quarrelsome boys: Dolly said that with the complaint, the principal and family members went to the accused driver, Ajay's, home on Refinery Road. When they arrived, they found he was not at home. They called him and he sent about 25 rowdy boys to their house, who started a fight with them.

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