Bihar Student, 7, Dies In Hostel, Friends Say He Was Beaten Over Homework

Patna: A seven-year-old student died in Bihar a day after
he was allegedly beaten by his
residential school's owner for
failing to do his homework, his
friends claimed.
Aditya Yadav was a lower
KG student at a private school
in Saharsa district. The accused, Sujeet Kumar, thrashed
him with a wooden stick on
Wednesday for not completing
his homework, said one of his
friends.
Aditya's friends and seniors,
who lived with him in the hostel, found him dead in his bed
next morning.
When they took him to Kumar, he advised them to leave
his body at the hospital, said a
Class 4 student of the school.
Kumar then informed the boy's
father he had fainted. But before he could reach his son's
school, Aditya was declared
dead at a nursing home. Kumar, who denied the charges
against him, is now missing.
The boy was already dead
when he was brought to the
nursing home, said Dr Dinesh
Kumar. There were no injury
marks on his body, he said,
adding that the reason behind
his death could be ascertained
only after autopsy.
In a contradicting statement,
another student said the boy's
body was swollen due to the
beating. He said Aditya was
beaten two days in a row for
not memorising his lessons.
The victim's father, Prakash
Yadav, said Aditya had last
visited home on Holi and returned to his hostel on March
14. "I was informed on Thursday that my son had fainted in
the school and was being taken
to hospital. But before I could
reach the private clinic, Aditya
had died and Sujeet Kumar
gone missing," he said.