A nine-year-old Dalit boy died on Saturday, 24 days after he was assaulted by a teacher in his school in Jalore district of Rajasthan for allegedly touching a pot of drinking water.
The boy was under medical care at Ahmedabad in Gujarat. He was taken there after he did not respond to treatment in Jalore and Udaipur.
The incident took place at a private school, Saraswati Vidya Mandir, in Surana village on July 20, when the teacher, Chhail Singh, took exception to the student of Class III, Inder Meghwal, touching the earthen pot and drinking water from it.