7-year-old Class 2 pupil hung the wrong way up by college bus driver in Panipat over misbehaviour; FIR filed

A Class 2 pupil at a non-public major college in Panipat, Haryana, allegedly suffered bodily abuse by the hands of the college bus driver. The driver purportedly tied the seven-year-old boy’s ft with a wire to a window grille, hanging him the wrong way up as punishment for “misbehaviour”, and filmed the act.

The incident that passed off over a month in the past got here to gentle when the boy’s mom stumbled upon the video on Instagram on Saturday. “The incident passed off on August 13 on the college premises when the bus driver hung my son the wrong way up and slapped him for alleged misbehaviour. But he was too scared to reveal it to us,” she instructed The Hindu over cellphone.

The mom stated she went to the motive force’s home, together with the college principal and some academics, however he didn’t meet them. “He instructed me over cellphone that he had punished the boy on the behest of the principal,” she stated.

However, the principal denied this, saying the motive force was solely instructed to scold the boy as he was “naughty” . The principal stated the motive force was dismissed a month in the past after a number of dad and mom complained about his “misbehaviour” with college students, together with women, within the college bus.

The police have registered a case beneath the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and the Juvenile Justice Act. Investigating Officer Sunil Dutt stated the assertion of the boy could be recorded after counseling, and that the matter is being probed.

District Education Officer, Panipat, Rakesh Boora stated motion could be taken in opposition to the college authorities after a radical probe.