Bihar Teacher Beat Class X Student To Death For Smoking

Violence cannot be used as a measure to correct someone's wrong behaviour. Unfortunately, teachers have been repetitively using physical violence to correct the behaviour of students. Recently, the 15-year-old boy succumbed to death after allegedly being thrashed by his teachers, who caught him smoking in public. 

The deceased boy is identified as Bajrangi Kumar, residing in the East Champaran district of Bihar. At the time of the incident, he was in the Madhuban area to get his mother's mobile phone back from a repair shop. Reportedly, he took a smoke break along with his friends by stopping under the Hardiya bridge around 11:30 in the morning on 24 June, Saturday. 

Bihar Teacher Beat Student For Smoking

The teacher is identified as Vijay Kumar Yadav, the Chairman of the private residential school Madhuban Rising Star Prep School. The deceased boy went to the same school. Yadav along with a teacher, who was also a relative of the boy spotted Kumar smoking and got angry with him. Kumar's mother and sister claimed that he was taken to school and beaten brutally in the school compound. Yadav along with the other teachers in the school stripped the boy and hit him with belts. During that time the boy's father was not in town, he left for Punjab for work five days before. 

The relatives claimed that the boy suffered deep injuries on his neck, and arms, and also his private parts were also bleeding. He was so brutally thrashed that Kumar fell unconscious and was rushed to a private nursing home in Madhuban. Later referred to Muzaffarpur given the gravity of the situation, however, he died during the treatment. 

The chairman denying the family's allegation said that the boy wasn't beaten up but consumed poison after being caught smoking. The police are investigating the case and for now, the body of the deceased has been sent to Motihari for an autopsy, and the school is being sealed.

Earlier, in 2022, a teacher in Uttar Pradesh's Unnao was seen brutally whipping a five-year-old student in class, and the only fault was- her being mischievous in the class. Earlier this year, a Jaipur boy lost his vision after being thrashed by his teacher over his incomplete homework. The child has already gone through two surgeries and the third surgery is scheduled for February, that, too, without any guarantee of getting back the eyesight.

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