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Student, 13 dies after slap by a teacher in India
Student dies after slap by teacher
- Pupil hit for stepping out of hostel without permission to collect dry fruits from father
(From left) Shamim Mullick; the student’s mother Shamina Bibi mourns his death; (below) the hostel of Al-Islamia Mission where Shamim used to stay. Pictures by Chayan Majumdar
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A Class VIII student who stepped out to get dry fruits brought by his father has died after he was slapped by a teacher for leaving the school hostel beyond the permissible hours.
Shamim Mullick, 13, a student of Al-Islamia Mission at Dakbangla village in Murshidabad, had left the unguarded hostel after 7pm on being called by his father to a bus stop around 100 metres from the facility. Students are not supposed to step out of the hostel without permission after 7pm.
Some of his hostelmates said that around an hour after he returned, art teacher Hanif Sheikh, who stays in the hostel and is in charge of Class VIII boarders, called Shamim to his room and admonished him. The hostelmates said they heard the sound of slapping and moments later, Hanif rushed out of his room with Shamim in his arms.
"Shamim was unconscious. We sprinkled water on him but he did not regain consciousness," a student said, adding that the teacher came to know from some students that Shamim had gone out.
Hanif and school owner Shahajad Alam have been arrested on the basis of a police complaint by the boy's father, bus driver Julhas Mullick. The art teacher has been booked for murder, the police said. Police sources said Shahajad was arrested because Julhas had accused him of negligence.
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Julhas, 42, said he had called his son over to the bus stop around 7pm to give him dry fruits and some stationery. "He returned to the hostel. Around midnight, someone from the school called to say he was unwell and had been taken to hospital. He asked me to come fast. I went to the hospital with my wife Shamina Bibi and three relatives. We reached around 12.30am. My son was dead," said Julhas, a resident of Godapara, 4km from the school.
"We asked the on-duty doctor what had happened and he said my son had been brought dead.
Hanif and Shahajad told me Shamim fell ill and collapsed. But I saw finger marks on my son's face and a swelling under his left ear. We then went to the hostel and found out that he had been hit by the art teacher," Julhas said.
He said Shamim had taken admission to the school on January 22 and neither he nor his son knew that boarders had to take permission to step out of the hostel after 7pm.
Al-Islamia Mission was started seven years ago and has 380 students from Classes I to X. Students of Classes V to X have to stay in the hostel.
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http://www.telegraphindia.com/116021...p#.Vr5gcsYrLRY
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