Headmistress forces SC students to clean toilets, suspended
Tirupur:19.12.2021
The headmistress of a government high school here was suspended on Saturday for forcing students belonging to scheduled castes (SC) clean toilets and using degrading caste names to refer to them.
Chief educational officer R Ramesh said he received a complaint from some Class IX and X students of the school, in Iduvai village, on Friday against Geetha, 45, working in the school for the last three years. “They said she abused them using their caste name and made them clean toilets. I visited the school and conducted an inquiry to gather prima facie information and subsequently placed her under suspension. A complaint was lodged with the Mangalam police based on the inquiry,” he told TOI. Departmental action will be taken against Geetha and she is likely to be booked under the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, a school education department official said.
There are 14 teachers in the school, which imparts education to 400 students. TNN
No comments:
Post a Comment