India, Nov. 2 -- A boy from the Dalit community allegedly faced casteism along with physical assault, including a scorpion being placed in his pants, by the headmaster and two other teachers at a government school in Shimla district, police said on Sunday.

All three teachers have been booked for repeatedly assaulting the eight-year-old boy.

In the police complaint, the father of the boy - a Class 1 student of Government Primary School at Khaddapani area in Rohru sub-division of Shimla district - accused headmaster Devendra and teachers Babu Ram and Kritika Thakur of frequently assaulting his son for almost a year. The beating caused the child's ear to bleed and damaged his eardrum at one point, he said.

The father also alleged that the...