Students ‘tortured by teacher’

Case registered against two government school teacher for alleged abduction of three primary school students

DIJKOT:

A case was registered against two teachers of Government Elementary Girls’ School over allegedly keeping three class-4 students locked in a room with intent to torture. Relatives of the victims also blocked a main road and staged a protest.

In the case filed by Basharat Ali with Balochni Police Station, it was stated that his ten-year-old daughter Maryam Basharat is a class IV student in Government Elementary Girls School 59 RB.

He alleged in his application that headmistress Farheen and teacher Aqsi allegedly tortured Maryam, Sultan’s nine-year-old daughter Sadia and Abdul Razzaq’s daughter Kanwal Dua and locked them in a room.

When the complainant and the parents of the other victims went to the school, they found that the two teachers had reportedly locked the girls in the room and were sitting outside in the courtyard. After pleading with the teachers, they rescued the girls out of the room and saw that they had been severely tortured.

Balochni police registered a case against the two teachers under the provisions of 328A in the light of the medical certificate and started searching for them.

Meanwhile, relatives of the victims also protested against the teachers by blocking the road on Saturday afternoon, on which the police had to take action.

Meanwhile, a case was registered against a citizen who allegedly abused a health worker who was going to administer polio drops. Saima Rasheed, who was on duty as a polio worker in Jaranwala tehsil, told police that she had approached the suspect Aslam alias Lohar to administer polio drops in 35 Gb.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 4^th, 2024.