Jaipur: A murder case has been registered against a teacher of a private school in Rajasthan after he allegedly beat to death an eight-year-old girl, police said Friday.
The school is in Bandikui area of Dausa district, more than 90km from here.
“We have registered a case of murder against the teacher of a private school in Bandikui on a report filed by the father of the girl child,” Dausa Superintendent of Police Anshuman Bhomia said over the phone on Friday.
“We have launched investigations and have started to record statements of the eye witnesses. We are waiting for the post-mortem report,” Bhomia added.
He said that the search for the teacher, who fled from his village, was on.
On Thursday, the father of a Grade 2 student filed a police report alleging that his daughter died after her teacher beat her up because she had forgotten to take one of her books to school.
“My child fell ill after being beaten up. She was also suffering from high fever. We took her to a local hospital in Bandikui, which later referred her to Jaipur,” the father, who is from Nandera village in Bandikui division, said in the complaint.
The child died on the way to Jaipur.
