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| A screenshot of the video, which shows Veda Pathshala teacher brutalising a student |
Staff correspondent, September 10, 2015, NewsCrunch
A complaint has been filed against a teacher, Somasundara Shastri, who was caught on video beating up a eight year-old boy, at Vital town of Mangalore .
Besides thrashing the boy, the Veda Pathshala teacher also made a casteist remark.
A mobile video shows Somasundara Shastri beating up the boy, who already had a fractured hand. He made the boy remove his shirt and slapped him repeatedly while scolding him in Tulu.
According to local TV channels, the immediate provocation was the boy coming late. But going by the teacher’s shouts, he seems to have been angry on few other issues as well.
Besides thrashing the boy, the Veda Pathshala teacher also made a casteist remark.
A mobile video shows Somasundara Shastri beating up the boy, who already had a fractured hand. He made the boy remove his shirt and slapped him repeatedly while scolding him in Tulu.
According to local TV channels, the immediate provocation was the boy coming late. But going by the teacher’s shouts, he seems to have been angry on few other issues as well.
Hitting the boy hard, Somasundara Shastri is heard asking the boy, if he was a Kshatriya or a Brahmin. His comment, which is open for interpretation has become, controversial.
Either he meant the chair was meant only for kshatriyas or implied that it was beneath the Brahmin boy’s caste to sit on the chair.
The 5-minute video was shot in May but went viral recently when the local channels picked it up.
The complaint against the teacher has been lodged by Dalit Seva Samiti leader Sheshappa.