Indian police are looking a teacher accused of having beaten one of his students to death for having made a spelling error, The authorities reported this Tuesday, which repressed the protests triggered by the death of the minor.
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Nikhil Dohre was beaten unconscious with a stick and kicked unconscious by his high school teacher for misspelling a word on a test earlier this month, according to the complaint filed by his father.
depending on the medium Times of Indiathe events occurred on September 13, the day for which the teacher had planned a social sciences exam.
“My son had studied a lot for the exam. He was good in reading and writing,” the father told the aforementioned media.
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The father said that his son made a mistake by writing ‘samajak’ instead of ‘samajik’, which in Spanish means social.
“This irritated Ashwani Singh who grabbed my son by the hair and beat him mercilessly until he passed out and fell to the ground in the same school“he told the Times of India.
UP: Dalit Student Beaten to Death by Teacher For Spelling Error in Exam In Auraiya.
Nikhil Dohre, a class 10 student of Adarsh Inter College Achhalda succumbed to his injuries while undergoing treatment at UP University of Medical Sciences, Saifai, Etawah.#DalitLivesMatter pic.twitter.com/wVqPVss5S3
— The Jamia Times (@thejamiatimes) September 26, 2022
The 15-year-old died Monday at a hospital in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh from his injuries. The doctors affirmed, according to the minor’s father, that he suffered internal injuries due to the blows and had difficulty breathing when he was treated at a medical center.
The teacher fled after being denounced for the death of the 15-year-old student. “He escaped but we will arrest him soon,” police officer Mahendra Pratap Singh told AFP.
The young man’s family also denounced that they were repeatedly threatened by the teacher.
“When we found out about the beating, we came to the school. We were threatened by the teacher (…), the teacher also misbehaved and abused us with caste-specific words,” she said.
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RAJU DOHRE, father of Nikhil Dohre says that Nikhil was already suffering from serious kidney ailment & was under treatment. His teacher Ashwini Singh beat him with stick on his chest repeatedly, when Nikhil missed a word. Nikhil fainted immediately due to savage beatings. pic.twitter.com/nt0CyJ0v01
— Happy Singh (@HappySi79054951) September 27, 2022
Dohre was a member of the Dalit community, which is at the bottom rung of India’s caste system and has been subject to prejudice and discrimination for centuries.
For this reason, the protesters assure that the attack was a caste crime and that it was not motivated simply by a spelling error.
Hundreds of people took to the streets on Monday after news of Dohre’s death spread in the Auraiya district, where the incident took place.
The crowd demanded the professor’s arrest and set a police vehicle on fire.
A dozen protesters were detained, Singh said.
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