Teacher Who Beat UP Dalit Teen To Death Arrested
NDTV
Police said Ashwini Singh, the accused teacher who was on the run since the death of the 15-year-old Dalit student, was arrested from Gwari village
Days after a 15-year-old Dalit boy was beaten to death at an Uttar Pradesh school over a spelling error, his teacher has been arrested.
The police had been looking for the teacher, Ashwini Singh, for a week.
On September 7, Nikhit Dohre, a Class 10 student, was struck with a stick and a rod and kicked until he fell unconscious. He was beaten for misspelling the word "social" in an exam, his father had said in his complaint to the police.
The teacher, belonging to an upper caste community, first gave Rs 10,000 for Nikhit's treatment and then an additional Rs 30,000, but later stopped responding to phone calls, according to the complaint. The victim's father says when he confronted the teacher, he was abused with casteist slurs.
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