Shimla, Nov. 3 -- In a shocking case that has once again exposed the dark underbelly of caste bias and child abuse in Himachal Pradesh's schools, three government school teachers - including the headmaster - have been booked for allegedly torturing a Dalit boy and placing a live scorpion in his clothes at Government Primary School Khaddapani under Rohru subdivision of Shimla district.
According to the police complaint filed by the victim's father, the Class-I boy had been subjected to repeated physical torture for almost a year by Headmaster Devendra and teachers Babu Ram and Kritika Thakur. The father alleged that the teachers had on several occasions beaten the child so brutally that his ear bled and his eardrum was damaged.
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