Boy allegedly forced to drink urine, teachers suspended

As the students sitting under the shade of a tree were asked to read soon after the class began, the boy asked for permission to got the toilet which the three teachers monitoring them refused initially, parents of the boy claimed.

As the boy kept on pestering the teachers, they asked him to urinate under the tree and drink it and later beat him up, according to the complaint filed with the school by his parents Desinkurajan and Poongodi.

Upset at the alleged treatment meted out to him, the boy escaped to his native village Sholanmalai near Kumbakonam, where he has been admitted to a government hospital, the parents said.

The parents have not so far lodged police complaint regarding the incident which took place yesterday.

However, the management of the Agaram Seekur Sirumalar High School here denied the allegation that the student was forced to drink his own urine by the teachers but said the teachers have been suspended pending departmental inquiry.

Officials of the education department today visited the school to probe the matter.

Reacting to reports about the alleged incident, the school Correspondent (administrator), Muthamizh Selvan, who announced the suspension, alleged the student had brought with him a drug mixed tobacco substance to the school.MORE