Minor student beaten up by lecturers

A minor student, H Aditya, 17, was brutally beaten by Geetanjali Junior College director T. Surendra Kumar and four other lecturers on the pretext of using foul language. Following the incident, the student was shifted to a hospital by his parents since he was badly injured.

The student had also undergone appendectomy recently. A police case has been registered at the Nagarkurnool police station.

According to the Nagarkurnool inspector, the victim was identified as H. Aditya, a second year BiPC student. During the Physics class, the lecturer heard some abuses while leaving the class.

The lecturer thought it was Aditya who had used the bad language. The lecturer, along with the help of other lecturers dragged him to the director’s chamber and beat him up severely using a plastic pipe.

Child rights activist Achyuta Rao said that even after corporal punishment was banned, educational institutions were not paying heed to the ban. The Balala Hakkula Sangam has demanded the arrest of all the lecturers.

The activist also raised the issue that the management was running the institution even on a second Saturday, on the pretext of conducting an examination.

However, students said that it was an usual affair for them to have exams on every weekend and they did not have any holiday either on second Saturdays or Sundays.