Three staff members, including the principal of a Morarji Desai School in Yaluvalli in Malur, Kolar district, were suspended by the Karnataka Residential Educational Institutions Society (KREIS) on Sunday for making students manually clean the sanitary chambers as well as the school premises. The Kolar district police have filed a case under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, and arrested the principal and a teacher of the school.
In photographs that went viral, students were seen inside the manholes. The videos which are being circulated on the Internet also showed students saying that the teachers made them get inside manholes to clean them.
Following these visuals going viral, the Joint Director of the Social Welfare Department lodged a complaint based on which Kolar Police filed an FIR and arrested principal Bharathamma along with a teacher allegedly involved in the incident.
