Lucknow, Oct 9 (IANS) A principal and a teacher of an Uttar Pradesh private school have been slapped with cases for beating a class five student because he obtained low marks in a test, police said Friday.
Ayush Kumar Maurya, who studies at St. Joseph Junior High School, was Thursday hospitalised with multiple fractures and a head injury after he was brutally beaten by school principal R.Ibrahim and English language teacher A.V Joseph.

“Acting on the complaint registered by the boy’s parents, we today (Friday) raided the school, where we nabbed the teacher, while the principal managed to escape,” M.R. Gautam, a police inspector, told IANS.

“We have detained a few teachers of the school to know the whereabouts of the absconding principal,” he added.

“According to doctors, the student is now out-of-danger. He suffered fractures on his left hand and leg. The student also has wounds on his head that was repeatedly banged against the wall in the classroom,” said Gautam.

Maurya is a resident of Deoria, which is about 300-km from here.

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