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Teachers turn devil for a nursery boy & Dalit kids Akash Vashishtha Ghaziabad, August 22, 2010 Bihar: 8-yr-old thrashed for Rs 2 The principal of a Ghaziabad school allegedly beat up a Class I student for stepping out of the classroom. Sanjog Kumar (5) sustained an injury in his head that needed a visit to a hospital and seven stitches. The student of Brightland Public School in Govindpuram started bleeding profusely after the principal slapped him and hit him with a stick, his family alleged. "During recess, the principal, Balvin Khandelwal, reportedly came to the nursery class and found my son outside the room. She slapped Sanjog and asked him to go back to the class," Sanjog's father, Sanjay, an electronics dealer, said. But Sanjog, it appears was in no mood to listen to the teacher. "After a while, Sanjog went out of the class again. But when the principal caught him standing outside the classroom again, she got annoyed and hit him with a stick. The force of her blow threw Sanjog against the corner of a wooden bench and his head hit one of its edges," Sanjay said. According to the boy's parents, they received a call from the school around10.30 am. They were told Sanjog had taken a fall while indulging in some mischief and was injured. " We immediately rushed to the school and were surprised to see that the school had kept him as he was. They had not even administered first aid," Sanjay said. The parents also found that Sanjog had bled profusely from the cut and his uniform was blood- stained. "The school staff had changed his dress as it was completely soaked in blood," Sanjay said. The boy's father also alleged that he was initially not allowed even to meet the principal. "When we sought their permission to take our son to a hospital, they prevented us from doing so and said the school would do it," he said. The parents also alleged that the principal was rude when they met her. " When we told the principal we were paying the fees to get our child educated and not to get him beaten up, she told us she would issue us a transfer certificate," Sanjay said. Sanjog was taken to the MMG Hospital where he the injury was stitched and dressed. Sanjay later lodged a complaint with the Kavi Nagar police, who have registered a case against the principal. SSP Raghubir Lal said: "We are probing the incident. It cannot be allowed to recur. We will also send a report to the district administration about the incident." The principal denied she had hit the boy or that the school had ignored the boy's injury. " Sanjog got injured when I was taking him to his classroom," Balvin said.
