Spelling mistake costs teen his life

POLICE in India were searching for a teacher accused of beating a low-caste student to death over a spelling mistake, officers said on Tuesday (27).

Nikhil Dohre, 15, was struck with a rod and kicked until he was unconscious by his high school teacher earlier this month, after misspelling the word ‘social’ in an exam, according to a police complaint by his father.

He died from his injuries on Monday (26) at a hospital in Uttar Pradesh state, and the accused has fled the area.

“He is on the run, but we will arrest him soon,” police officer Mahendra Pratap Singh said.

Hundreds of people took to the streets on Monday after news of Dohre’s death spread in Auraiya district, the location of the attack. The crowd demanded the teacher’s arrest before the cremation of the boy’s body and torched a police vehicle.

Around a dozen protesters had been arrested, Singh said.