More than 24 students of Kasturba Gandhi Balika School in Bihar’s Supaul district were mercilessly thrashed by local goons after they objected to lewd comments scribbled on hostel walls. The girls, admitted to Triveniganj Referral Hospital, are in a trauma, said hospital sources.
Taking serious note of the incident, Supaul District Magistrate Baidyanath Yadav took stock of the situation in and outside the school and ordered a probe. He said an FIR would be filed after a preliminary inquiry.
“The accused will be identified with the help of CCTV footage and action initiated against them,” he said.
“Some boys wrote salacious remarks and we informed the warden and teachers, who chided us. The boys, in the meantime, fled and falsely claimed they had been beaten up by the schoolgirls,” a student told the police.
“A group of boys, accompanied by their guardians, entered the school premises and attacked the girls on the school playground. When the staff interevened, they too were thrashed,” claimed a schoolteacher.
