Tragic fall: Student’s death - police arrest teacher
Fellow students said that the boy was given rigorous punishment.
RAWALPINDI:
The Civil Lines police on Tuesday arrested a teacher of a private school in the tragic death case of a seventh-grade student. The student, Mehr Ali, died after falling from the stairs of the Saint Mary’s Academy on September 19. The police registered FIR against Amir Elahi after Ali’s father Aamir Mirza, claimed that his son died owing to the punishment given to him by his teacher, a fact being concealed by the school administration.
Earlier, some class fellows of the student had also said that Ali was made to do squats after which Elahi asked him to fetch books from the first floor. The boy was already tired after the punishment and then he was made to climb the stairs, one of his classmates said.
The Station House Officer (SHO) of Civil Lines Raja Mussadaq confirmed the development saying that the FIR was registered on the complaint of the student’s father.
The SHO said police had inserted section 202 (concealing of a criminal act) and 316 (an action leading to the death of a person) of Pakistan Penal Code and would start their investigation from the teacher.
Earlier the family of the deceased had refused to carryout any legal proceedings against the teacher as the father of the boy was in England. Mirza on his return approached the police and got the criminal case registered against the teacher.
Mirza got the information from the fellow students that Ali was made to 50 squats. Right after that, he was made to climb the stairs. As he was climbing he fell from the eighth steps and got his spinal cord damaged.
A close relative of the boy informed The Express Tribune that the father of the deceased had to face a lot of problem in getting the case registered as the school was private and its administration was influential.
The Civil Lines police on Tuesday arrested a teacher of a private school in the tragic death case of a seventh-grade student. The student, Mehr Ali, died after falling from the stairs of the Saint Mary’s Academy on September 19. The police registered FIR against Amir Elahi after Ali’s father Aamir Mirza, claimed that his son died owing to the punishment given to him by his teacher, a fact being concealed by the school administration.
Earlier, some class fellows of the student had also said that Ali was made to do squats after which Elahi asked him to fetch books from the first floor. The boy was already tired after the punishment and then he was made to climb the stairs, one of his classmates said.
The Station House Officer (SHO) of Civil Lines Raja Mussadaq confirmed the development saying that the FIR was registered on the complaint of the student’s father.
The SHO said police had inserted section 202 (concealing of a criminal act) and 316 (an action leading to the death of a person) of Pakistan Penal Code and would start their investigation from the teacher.
Earlier the family of the deceased had refused to carryout any legal proceedings against the teacher as the father of the boy was in England. Mirza on his return approached the police and got the criminal case registered against the teacher.
Mirza got the information from the fellow students that Ali was made to 50 squats. Right after that, he was made to climb the stairs. As he was climbing he fell from the eighth steps and got his spinal cord damaged.
A close relative of the boy informed The Express Tribune that the father of the deceased had to face a lot of problem in getting the case registered as the school was private and its administration was influential.
The principal of the school Patras Bhatti had called the death an accident saying that the bulky boy could keep his balance. He had also said that the school administration was going to take action against the teacher he was found guilty, but according to sources no investigation had been conducted so far.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 5th, 2011.