Lecturer talks with sandals
- Final-year college student gets a thrashing for loitering OUR
CORRESPONDENT DHSK College Dibrugarh, Aug. 8: Remember that
particularly grumpy teacher in school, the one who seemed to have been born
with a cane in his hand? Okay, you forgot those beatings once you stepped into
college and a life of freedom, right?
Hemant Chamaria wont, not after learning yesterday that corporal punishment
can spill over from school to college. A final-year student at Dibrugarh
Hanumanbux Surajmal Kanoi (DHSK) College, Hemant suffered the physical pain and
the humiliation of being assaulted by a lecturer for indulging in the favourite
campus pastime of most collegians: loitering.
A classroom full of students watched in shock as their teacher Ramakanta
Gogoi abruptly ended his lecture, walked out of the door and heaped a mouthful
of abuse on Hemant and his friends, who were allegedly making a lot of noise
while pacing up and down the corridor.
Gogoi then dragged Hemant inside the classroom and thrashed him. The youths
father, Prakash Chamaria, a businessman based in Paltanbazar, filed an FIR with
police late last night. Hemant was medically examined today.
Based on the complaint filed by Prakash Chamaria, we registered a case under
Section 325 of the IPC against the lecturer, the officer-in-charge of
Dibrugarh Sadar police station, Sisir Baruah, said.
Gogoi was unavailable for comment, but principal Raghu Borbora apologised on
his behalf in the face of a protest by students when the college opened this
morning.
Prakash confirmed receiving a written apology from the principal. The letter
was delivered to me in a sealed envelope, he said. The Chamarias are planning
to withdraw the complaint against Gogoi in deference to the principals apology
and assurance that such an incident would not recur.
One of the students who witnessed the fracas said the lecturer lost his cool
because Hemant and his friends were laughing aloud in the corridor. Gogoi used
his sandals to beat Hemant despite the student begging for mercy.
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