Patna: A day after the director of a prominent school in Nalanda in Bihar was beaten to death by an angry crowd, the police officer in-charge of the area has been suspended.
The mob was protesting after two students were found dead in a nearby lake. The students reportedly left the school premises without informing the concerned authorities following which a search was launched.
Police was with him when the incident took place. They left him alone amidst the angry protestors. I hold teh authorities responsible for all what happened. (Police thi saath mein. Police logon nehi papa ko chhor diya akele pithwane ke liye aur mein sara dosh prasashan kohi dungi)," Principal's daughter Swarn Lata Kiran said.
The protestors went on to vandalise the premises of the institute besides attacking the principal. A probe has been ordered into the case.
Nalanda police station in-charge Sunil Kumar said the bodies of the two students of the residential Devendra Public School (DPS), Ravi Kumar and Sagar Kumar were fished out from a water-filled ditch near Nirpur village located close to the school.
The incident sparked off protest by local people who torched a van and set two rooms of the school on fire using an LPG cylinder and assaulted the school Director Devendra Prasad. Six policemen were also injured in stone pelting by the mob.
The school director earlier briefed media about the incident claiming both the students had left the school premises without informing the authorities, following which a search was launched to track them and the bodies were found lying in the ditch.
Prasad was seen in CCTV footage as being beaten up by a mob who rained blows from lathis while the DPS director lay on ground, school authorities said. Some people kicked him, while some others assaulted him with fists to protest against the death of two DPS students, aged around 7-8 years, they said.
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