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Uproar over injury to LKG student

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Boy’s tongue found badly wounded; teacher’s ‘indifference’ arouses suspicion

PHOTO: K. Ramesh Babu

K. Devi Vara Prasad shows his wounded tongue. -

HYDERABAD: Student organisations on Wednesday stirred up an agitation over reports that an LKG student of a private school at Nallakunta sustained serious injury on his tongue after a teacher pushed him down six days ago.

The agitation that lasted a couple of hours, however, ended in a settlement with the school management coming forward to bear the medical expenses of the injured student K. Devi Vara Prasad. The boy’s father K. Dileep, who lodged his protest with the St. Mary school management accusing them of negligence, preferred not to lodge any specific complaint with the police.

Dileep, a driver from Amberpet, dropped the boy as usual at the school entrance around 8 a.m. on Thursday last. Three hours later, he received a call from the school saying his son fell sick and vomited.

“I went to the school only to see my son sitting in a corner of the classroom with blood oozing out from his mouth. The teacher present there was so casual conveying nothing had happened,” he told The Hindu. On closer ex amination, the father found his son’s tongue was wounded and rushed him to the hospital.

While Dileep alleged that his son suffered a wound on the tongue after a teacher pushed him down, the school management maintained it was an accidental fall.

“We have not yet received any complaint from them so far. The alleged way a school teacher tried to make light of the boy’s injury probably prompted Dileep to believe that the teacher pushed down his son,” Nallakunta police station Inspector K. Karunakar Reddy said. Subsequently, the boy’s parents approached the school correspondent Y. Venkat Reddy alleging that negligence of teachers resulted in serious injury to the boy who had four sutures.

Student unions

They said alleged failure of the school management to shift the injured boy to hospital and leaving him unattended pained them more. As word spread about the incident on Wednesday, activists of different student unions assembled before the school and staged a demonstration demanding action against school teacher.

Eventually, a compromise was brokered as the student leaders held discussions with the school management which agreed to bear the medical expenses of the student.

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