Devdutt recalls how he took his 12-year-old son to a clinic and four hospitals in Dadri and Delhi to save his 12-year-old; Accused admitted to thrashing the child, registered a case of culpable homicide not amounting to murder; Awaiting postmortem report, says Noida Police
Devdutt recalls how he took his 12-year-old son to a clinic and four hospitals in Dadri and Delhi to save his 12-year-old; Accused admitted to thrashing the child, registered a case of culpable homicide not amounting to murder; Awaiting postmortem report, says Noida Police
A self-reliant and studious child, intelligent beyond his years, who wanted to be a scientist, 12-year-old Prince’s family remembers him, a week after he was allegedly beaten to death by a teacher at school.
In his three-room house in Greater Noida’s Bambawar village, Prince’s father, Devdutt, 38, is still finding it difficult to come to terms with his son, the brightest in his class, who failed a test in Hindi. being brutally beaten for
“He didn’t have many friends. Prince mostly focused on his studies and pursuing his dreams of becoming a scientist. His classmates told us that his teacher gave him a test in Hindi in which some students, including Prince, failed Why would someone beat up a child for such a trivial matter?” Sad father says.
sequence of events
On the morning of 7 October, Mr. Devadutt dropped his three children, including Prince, at their school, as he used to do every day. At 12 noon, an hour before the school closed, he received a call from the accused teacher – Shobharan – informing him that his elder son had fainted. “When I went to his school, I saw my son lying on the ground covered with his own vomit,” Mr. Devdutt told The Hindu.
He took his son to a clinic in Dadri, followed by a local hospital, where he was asked to take his son to Delhi for better treatment.
“The initial CT scan showed bleeding from his brain, which made it swollen. I took my child to two hospitals in Delhi, both of whom refused admission saying that they did not have the necessary medical equipment for the treatment,” alleged the father. Prince breathed his last on October 8 at 9 am at LNJP Hospital. The doctors there told Mr. Devdutt that the delay in admitting his son had resulted in a build-up of fluid inside his brain.
accused caught
Shobharan, who was absconding for three days after the incident, has been booked under section 304 of the IPC for culpable homicide not amounting to murder.
“He was taken into custody on Tuesday and is cooperating with the investigation so far. She has confessed that she had beaten Prince with a cane. We spoke to Prince’s classmates, who also claimed that Shobharan often used to beat up students in the class. We are still waiting for the post-mortem report,” said DCP (Central Noida) Ram Badan Singh.
Shri Devdutt says that his son was beaten up by the same teacher earlier also. “Months before the incident, I had seen bruises on Prince’s thighs, which he later told me was the result of his teacher’s cane. I wish I had taken it seriously,” he says, two of the Prince’s The younger siblings have been injured by the incident and are reportedly also beaten up by Shobharan.
Prince’s grandfather Sher Singh, 70, held back his tears, saying that his grandson was different from other children. “We always believed that he would achieve great things in life if he got proper guidance. He once lit his bicycle with a string of LED lights with the help of a mobile battery. The other day, an air cooler at home Stopped working but he fixed it within an hour,” Singh recalled.
Prince’s mother Meenakshi said, “He learned to cook all kinds of food just by watching me in the kitchen. We believed Prince would excel in life, but it was tragically cut short due to a minor test.”