Playschool horror: Mumbai Police books 2 teachers for ‘brutally assaulting, ill-treating kids’

The police said that, going by the CCTV footage, the children were assaulted by the teachers over a period of three months between January 1 and March 27 this year. The police, however, added that they were probing if the accused teachers also ill-treated and assaulted the children even before that.

The father of a two-year-old boy, in his complaint to the police, said the playschool started in September 2022. “There are around 28 children who attend the playschool. My son has been attending it since it started,” he said in the complaint.

The 35-year-old father further said that he noticed a vast behavioral change in his son, who had become aggressive and also started hitting people in their house. Worried, he then enquired with the parents of other children attending the playschool.

“They too told me that they had noticed changes in their children’s behaviour, who had become aggressive at home,” the boy’s father said in the complaint.

The parents then came together and took up the issue with the two owners of the playschool. They were initially told that some of the children may have indulged in “some wrong activity” due to which their behaviour may have changed. But when the owners checked the CCTV footage, the horror came to light.

The CCTV footage showed the two accused teachers ill-treating and brutally assaulting the children, the police said.

According to the police statement of the complainant, the two teachers can be seen manhandling the children, as well as dragging them on the floor, pinching their cheeks, hitting their heads with books, and also picking up the children and flinging them on the floor. “The parents sought a copy of the CCTV footage from the playschool after which they approached the police to lodge a complaint,” a police officer said.

The police have registered a case under Section 23 of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015.