Headmistress, teacher arrested for electrocution of boy in school
Kin of the deceased accept body
06/09/2019 , Special Correspondent, RAMANATHAPURAM
The headmistress and a teacher of the Government High School near Uchipuli in the district were arrested on Thursday, a day after a Class VIII boy was electrocuted while operating the electric motor in the school.
A day after the boy – R. Kartheeswaran, son of Ramesh, a construction worker – was electrocuted, police arrested Headmistress A. Rosemary, 55, and teacher G. Tamizharasu, 44, who allegedly asked the victim and other boys to operate the electric motor installed to pump water into the overhead tank.
Acting on the complaint lodged by Mr. Ramesh, Uchipuli police arrested them under Section 304 (culpable homicide) of the Indian Penal Code. They were produced before Judicial Magistrate Radhakrishnan here in the evening and remanded in judicial custody at Ramanathapuram District Jail.
Though the HM was in Ramanathapuram to attend a meeting convened by the Chief Educational Officer when the accident occurred, she was arraigned in the case as she was the head of the school, the police said. Sources in the CEO office said that she would also be placed under suspension in view of her arrest.
The CEO had already ordered the suspension of Tamizharasu and Abilasha, the victim’s class teacher. Abilasha’s name, however, did not figure in the FIR. When contacted, Deputy Superintendent of Police (Rameswaram) S. Magesh said that she would be arraigned in the case if necessary, after a detailed investigation.
Meanwhile, the family members of the boy, who had been refusing to accept the body, demanding compensation and action against the teachers, accepted the body on Thursday.
Kin of the deceased accept body
06/09/2019 , Special Correspondent, RAMANATHAPURAM
The headmistress and a teacher of the Government High School near Uchipuli in the district were arrested on Thursday, a day after a Class VIII boy was electrocuted while operating the electric motor in the school.
A day after the boy – R. Kartheeswaran, son of Ramesh, a construction worker – was electrocuted, police arrested Headmistress A. Rosemary, 55, and teacher G. Tamizharasu, 44, who allegedly asked the victim and other boys to operate the electric motor installed to pump water into the overhead tank.
Acting on the complaint lodged by Mr. Ramesh, Uchipuli police arrested them under Section 304 (culpable homicide) of the Indian Penal Code. They were produced before Judicial Magistrate Radhakrishnan here in the evening and remanded in judicial custody at Ramanathapuram District Jail.
Though the HM was in Ramanathapuram to attend a meeting convened by the Chief Educational Officer when the accident occurred, she was arraigned in the case as she was the head of the school, the police said. Sources in the CEO office said that she would also be placed under suspension in view of her arrest.
The CEO had already ordered the suspension of Tamizharasu and Abilasha, the victim’s class teacher. Abilasha’s name, however, did not figure in the FIR. When contacted, Deputy Superintendent of Police (Rameswaram) S. Magesh said that she would be arraigned in the case if necessary, after a detailed investigation.
Meanwhile, the family members of the boy, who had been refusing to accept the body, demanding compensation and action against the teachers, accepted the body on Thursday.
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