UP Shocker! Teacher Uses Power Drill To Punish Student For Failing To Recite Multiplication Table

In a shocking incident of corporal punishment, a school teacher allegedly used a drilling machine to 'punish' a student after he failed to recite the multiplication table of two.

The incident happened at the Basic Primary (Government) School in the Prem Nagar area of Kanpur on Thursday.

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Punished for not reciting multiplication table?

The nine-year-old boy, a class V student, was passing through the school library when the instructor, identified as Anuj Pandey, overseeing some maintenance work there, stopped him and asked him to recite the multiplication table of two.

But when the boy failed to recite the table correctly, Pandey, reportedly hired recently from a private institute, got angry and used a power drill to punish the student.

He reportedly ran the drill machine on the boy's left hand, leaving him injured.

The boy was saved by the quick thinking of another student who saw this and unplugged the drilling machine.

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School tried to cover up the matter

"Sir asked me to recite the table of two. But since I failed to recite the table correctly, he got angry and ran the drilling machine on my left hand. Another student who standing beside me pulled the plug out to stop the machine but by then my hand had got injured,” the boy alleged.

What is more shocking is that the school authorities and other teachers played down the incident and even tried to cover it up.

The boy was allegedly given some basic first aid and sent home by other teachers.

The teacher sent him home and he was not even given an anti-Tetanus injection immediately after the incident,” a relative of the boy alleged.

Shocked parents protest?

The matter came to light only on Friday after the boy's parents, who were left shocked after he narrated the incident to them, confronted the school authorities.

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Following the protest by the boy's family, the school authorities reported the matter to the district Basic Education Officer (BSA).

BSA Surjit Kumar Singh also met the family of the injured boy and said that the accused instructor has been terminated from service.

Probe ordered

He also announced that a three-member committee has been formed to look into the incident.

“A three-member committee has been formed to look into various aspects such as whether the child was hurt deliberately or accidentally and also the role of other teachers in hushing up the incident. Action will be taken on the basis of the investigation,” he said.

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