New Delhi: As the debate on corporal punishment hots up across India’s academic circles, shocking stories of teacher atrocities come to light everyday.
On Wednesday, a schoolteacher in Maharashtra’s Pune was sentenced to one year in jail by for hitting a Class VIII student on the head in February 1996.
The assault led to brain damage and paralysis in the boy's right arm and leg.
Ujjwala Andrews, a teacher in city’s Vinay High School, will serve one year of simple imprisonment for causing the grievous injury to Munir Patel 11 years ago.
Patel’s fault was that he was “troubling his teachers”.
After being hit on head with a wooden scale, the boy began to get seizures and was hospitalised for serious head injury.
His father Nasir filed a police complaint against Andrews immediately after, Assistant Public Prosecutor Shilpa Mahatekar was quoted by PTI as saying.
It was after 11 years that justice was finally delivered when Judicial Magistrate First Class Gauri Jadhav delivered the judgement on Tuesday.
The judge cited witness accounts and Patel’s medical reports as the basis for her judgement.
Patel, now 27, dropped out of school after the incident and works in a shop now.
He said Andrews deserved “stringent punishment”. "The beating I received at her hands has changed the course of my life. She has got away with a lighter sentence. You tell me how would you have felt if this happened with you?" he was quoted as saying by PTI.
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