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LUCKNOW: Not bringing her text book to class proved fatal for an 8-year-old girl student of a primary government school in Auraiyya district of Twitter Facebook Share Email Print Save Comment Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday evening. The young girl apparently suffered internal injuries when she was allegedly boxed by the class teacher for this fault of hers. The teacher has been detained. A petty farmer of Saraikhati village under Achchalda police station on the outskirts of Auraiyya, Madan Lal Chauhan was keen to see his only daughter Akansha go to school. Presently in class III, Akansha too loved studies and was regular to her school. Station officer (SO) Achchalda police station, senior sub-inspector (SSI) Deepak Misra, quoting the contents of the complaint filed by Madan Lal, said that Akansha was attending her regular classes on Monday (December 21, 2009) at Saraikhati Primary Paathshala when she discovered that she had forgotten to bring one of her Hindi text books with her. According to Madan Lal, even before her class teacher, Amar Singh Gautum, could find out about it, an unsuspecting Akansha herself informed him about it. Allegations are that Gautum got so agitated on her mistake that he boxed her on her neck from the back, before she could get back to her seat. Initially complaining of slight pain in her neck and back, Akansha went home after the classes were over and informed her father about it, though initially Madan Lal did not take the issue seriously. However, when Akansha got up on Tuesday morning, she complained of severe pain in the neck and refused to go to school. By Tuesday night, she started suffering blackouts. Concerned with the deteriorating condition of Akansha, Madan Lal, on Wednesday morning, approached the local police but managed to get a case lodged only on the intervention of district police chief Sridhar Pathak. While initiating the proceedings of lodging an FIR, the police sent Akansha along with Madan Lal and a constable from the police station for medical examination of the victim. "The doctors at the PHC said that some mandatory tests needed to be done and referred her for the Auraiyya district hospital," Madan Lal said, adding: "But she died on way to the hospital," as he broke down inconsolably. Though initially Akansha's parents, after being informed by the victim's classmate about the incident, did not pay much heed to the reports that Akansha was beaten to death by her class teacher, however once her condition began to deteriorate, they decided to approach the police. But it was perhaps a bit too late by then. "Prima facie evidences were surely strong enough to at least merit a proper investigations. We have sent the body to Etawah for post-mortem examination which was likely to be complete by Thursday afternoon. We have detained the teacher but will wait for the post-mortem report to establish the cause of death, and initiate action against the accused, accordingly," Pathak said, talking to TOI. The accused teacher, however, refuted allegations levelled against him while talking to TOI on phone. "I have been teaching young children for quite a few years now. How could have I done such a thing," he said, adding: "the family seems to have been informed wrongly about my conduct."

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