Three teachers of a government school in Himachal Pradesh’s Shimla, including the headmaster, have been booked for allegedly assaulting an eight-year-old Dalit boy and placing a scorpion in his pants, PTI reported on Sunday.

The police complaint filed by the boy’s father stated that the Class 1 student of a government primary school in the Khaddapani area of Rohru sub-division had been subjected to frequent physical assaults by headmaster Devendra and teachers Babu Ram and Kritika Thakur for almost a year.

The father alleged that the repeated beatings caused the child’s ear to bleed and damaged his eardrum, PTI reported.

He also claimed that the teachers once took the boy to the school’s toilet and placed a scorpion in his pants.

A case has been registered under sections of the Bha

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