Shimla teachers put scorpion in 8

Himachal Pradesh : An eight-year-old boy in Himachal’s Shimla was a victim of caste-based abuse at school, with the teachers once placing a scorpion in his pants.

The police, on November 3, confirmed that the headmaster Devendra and two teachers, Babu Ram and Kritika Thakur, were arrested under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, as well as relevant sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS).

According to the boy’s father, the abuse had allegedly been a longstanding issue, spanning a year. He stated that his son, who goes to the Government Primary School in Khaddapani, was repeatedly assaulted. In one such incident, a brutal beating resulted in bleeding of the ear and a ruptured eardrum.

In another inhumane incident, the teachers took the ch