Four students thrash schoolmate after fight over kabaddi match, case filed as parents see video on social media
Cases of violence involving school students have recently seen a rise in Gujarat. After a Class 10 student was murdered in Ahmedabad, a Class 8 student was stabbed in Balasinor city of Mahisagar, and a Class 9 student was threatened by a classmate with a knife in Bhavnagar in August alone, another incident reported in […]
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Officers are yet to find out who uploaded the video on social media and if the school and hostel authorities tried to hush up the incident.
Cases of violence involving school students have recently seen a rise in Gujarat. After a Class 10 student was murdered in Ahmedabad, a Class 8 student was stabbed in Balasinor city of Mahisagar, and a Class 9 student was threatened by a classmate with a knife in Bhavnagar in August alone, another incident reported in Junagadh has now come to light — more than a month after it took place.
The Junagadh police on Tuesday filed a non-cognisable offence against four students of Classes 11 and 12 of a city school more than a month after they allegedly thrashed another student in a hostel room over a fight that ensued during a kabaddi match.
Deputy SP Hitesh Dhandhaliya told The Indian Express, “On July 26, some students of Classes 11 and 12 got involved in an altercation during a kabaddi match in their school. Four of them thrashed one student in a hostel room the next day. We are filing a station diary note and will take action under the Juvenile Justice Act.”
The four juveniles in conflict with the law were on Tuesday held accused of being equivalently in violation of BNS Section 115(2) (voluntarily causing hurt), under which the accused can be awarded a punishment of one-year imprisonment.
When asked why a complaint was filed by the parents of the minor victim only now, DySP Dhandhaliya said that the boy had not informed his parents about the incident, adding that the parents came to know about the same after coming across a video on social media. The complaint was received on Tuesday evening, police said.
Officers are yet to find out who uploaded the video on social media and if the school and hostel authorities tried to hush up the incident.
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