Jharkhand: Students Beat Teacher for Giving Bad Grades
A mathematics teacher and a clerk of a school in Jharkhand were beaten by students for giving poor marks in Class 9 practical examination
Although incidents of students getting beaten by teachers might be very common in India. However , in a bizarre incident, a teacher has been trashed by his students in Jharkhand. A mathematics teacher and a clerk of a government run Scheduled Tribe Residential School in Jharkhand's Dumka district were allegedly beaten by students after tying them to a tree for reportedly giving poor marks in Class 9 practical examination. The incident took place on 29th August. As many as 11 students of the school out of 32 got Grade 'DD' (double D), which is considered equivalent to fail, in the class-9 examination. Results of which were declared by Jharkhand Academic Council (JAC) on Saturday 27th August.
Gopikandar Police Station in-charge Nityanand Bhokta said, "No FIR has been lodged in the case, as school management did not give any written complaint about the incident. After verification of the incident, I asked the school authority to file a complaint but it refused saying that it might spoil the careers of the students," The teacher was identified as Suman Kumar, while the clerk was Soneram Chaure. The clerk was allegedly responsible for uploading the marks online in Jharkhand Academic Council's site. They also did not filed any written complaint to the police, Mr Bhokta said.Gopikandar Block Development Officer (BDO) Anant Jha, who also went to the school with police officer Bhokta for the investigation said, there are 200 students in the residential school and the majority of the students were involved in the incident. Jha said, "The victim teacher was earlier headmaster of the school, but later he was removed for reasons not known. It might be a case of rivalry among teachers. Jha added, “To maintain law and order of the school, classes for class-9 and class-10 have been suspended for two days and students were sent back to their homes.”
"The school management, however, failed to show the marks of practical examinations and the date on which the marks were uploaded online. It is still not clear whether the students failed in theory paper or practical. It Seems the students took the action only on a rumor. ”The students alleged that the teacher gave low marks to them in practical examinations, for which they failed in the exams.
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