Teacher beats up students
Shariq Majeed
Tribune News Service

Rajouri, September 16
Students took to the streets and blocked traffic here for hours after a government schoolteacher allegedly beat up two students today.

Eyewitness told The Tribune that Vinod Gupta posted in a local Government Higher Secondary School (boys) beat up Javed (class IX student) and Asraeel (class X student) as they had not done their homework.

Both were later admitted to the district hospital here. Sources in the district hospital said the condition of both students was stable now.

As soon as students came to know about the beating of their schoolmates, they started protesting against the teacher. Initially, the students protested inside the school and, later, took out a protest rally from the school complex to the Sher-e-Kashmir Bridge. Immediately after the incident, a senior police officer, the SHO and the chief education officer reached the bridge and urged the students to lift the blockade. The students lifted the blockade only after the police and the education officer assured them of action against the teacher within two days.

However, an FIR in the case is yet to be registered. Sources said that the accused was the brother of a senior BJP leader, who was using his political clout to hush up the matter. Meanwhile, the teacher refused to give any comments.