A fifth-standard student Bajrangi Kumar (14) died after allegedly being caught smoking and thrashed by the teachers of a private school in Motihari of East Champaran district of Bihar. Son of Harikishore Rai and Usmila Devi, Kumar used to study in Rising Star Private Residential School in Madhuban.
The incident happened on June 24 when the boy went to repair his mother’s mobile phone.
“He went to the mobile repairing shop and while returning he was allegedly caught smoking near Hardiya bridge where the director of the school and a teacher took him to the school and reportedly beat him up mercilessly following which he fell unconscious. They took him to the nearest hospital but his condition worsened and he was taken to a private hospital in Muzaffarpur where he died,” Puja Kumari, the elder sister of the deceased said.
