11 students of Class 9 were declared failed by Jharkhand Academic Council!
On Tuesday, A math’s teacher and a clerk of a residential school in Jharkhand's Dumka district were allegedly beaten by students after tying them to a tree for reportedly giving poor marks in Class 9 practical examination, police said.
On Monday, The incident took place at a government run Scheduled Tribe Residential School under Gopikandar police station area of the district.
As many as 11 students of the school out of 32 got Grade 'DD', which is considered equivalent to fail, in the class-9 examination, results of which were declared by Jharkhand Academic Council (JAC) on Saturday, the police informed.
"No FIR has been lodged in the case, as school management did not give any written complaint about the incident. After verification of the incident, I asked the school authority to file a complaint but it refused saying that it might spoil the careers of the students," Gopikandar police station in-charge Nityanand Bhokta told PTI.
The teacher was identified as Suman Kumar, while the clerk was Soneram Chaure, police said. They also did not give any written complaint to the police, Mr. Bhokta said.
Gopikandar block development officer (BDO) Anant Jha, who also went to the school with Mr. Bhokta for the investigation said, there are 200 students in the residential school and most of the students were involved in the incident.
To maintain law and order of the school, class-9 and 10 classes have been suspended for two days and students were sent back to their homes," he said.
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