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| Physical abuse of 9-year-old girl by teacher causes outcry in AJK |
| 2017-10-02 |
| [DAWN] A video of a 9-year-old girl showing marks of physical abuse allegedly by her teacher went viral over the weekend and caused outrage among people in Azad Jammu and Kashmire (AJK), police said on Sunday. In the video, the mother of the minor girl, a student of a state-run primary school in Upper Tangerran village of tehsil Abbaspur, is seen showing marks of abuse on her daughter which she says are a result of brutal corporal punishment by a female teacher, allegedly for not remembering her lesson. The incident was confirmed by police in the area on Sunday. "The innocent child was ruthlessly beaten. Who resorts to such kind of torturous treatment with schoolchildren in today’s time?" Qazi Arsalan, second officer in Police Station Abbaspur, told DawnNews. According to the police, the incident occurred on Tuesday and garnered local attention after human rights ...not to be confused with individual rights,mind you... activist Saqib Mushtaq uploaded photographs of the girl on Facebook. Pictures showed the bruised swollen eyes of the girl, which doctors say is because of flogging on the head. Marks of flogging were also seen on the girl's back. According to Arsalan, the girl was brought to the station by her grandfather and uncle on Wednesday ─ a day after the incident took place. The police sent to her to a local health facility, from where she was referred to Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed al- Nahayan Hospital in district headquarters Rawalakot. "Since there is no such law in AJK dealing with corporal punishment in educational institutions, we were left with no choice but to register a case under normal penal code sections, which however require a medical report," Arsalan explained. On Saturday, the police received a provisional medical report from Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahayan Hospital, on the basis of which a first information report (FIR) was lodged against the teacher, he said. "Police teams are conducting raids to arrest the accused but she has gone into hiding," he said, adding that the case was assigned to a lady sub-inspector. |
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