Teacher pushed a student down stairs causing fracture Chennai: A woman has held up a protest with the Vyasarpadi police expressing that a teacher in a corporation elementary school in Ganeshpuram had beaten up her nine-year-old child and pushed down in the staircase, abandoning him with a broken hand. Following the complaint, the school authorities issued a transfer certificate to the victim and his brother, said the boy’s mother Athilakshmi, a maid. “The teacher warned me for sleeping and beat me up. She was in a hurry to send all the students out. Since I was packing my bag slowly, she pushed me towards the staircase and I rolled down,” said Tamizhselvan, a Class IV student. “Though I told the school authorities that my son’s pain was unbearable, they brought a doctor who asked us to apply pain balm. An X-ray test later revealed that he suffered a fracture on his left hand, said Athilakshmi. “They told me I should provide a leave letter since Tamizhselvan would be on leave until his hand healed. Since I don’t know to read and write, they sought my signature on an empty paper. Later on Friday, they told me to withdraw three of my children from the school. They handed over the transfer certificates for Tamizhselvan and Sathish and told me not to bring my daughter Sanjana to school again.” “Instead of taking action, the Vyasarpadi police forced me to accept a ‘compensation’ of Rs 10,000 and asked me to withdraw the complaint,” Athilakshmi said. City corporation deputy commissioner (education) Mageswari Ravi Kumar revealed to TOI that the accusation was false. She said the child had fallen down amid a fight with other students and that his parents had decided to pull the children out of the school. Inspector Mohanraj also said the teacher was innocent. He denied offering Rs 10,000 for medical expenses.
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