UP Teen Death: Teacher Who Beat UP Dalit Teen To Death Arrested

Parijat Chauhan

Parijat Chauhan

Police said Ashwini Singh, the accused teacher who was on the run since the death of the 15-year-old Dalit student, was arrested from Gwari village

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Days after a 15-year-old Dalit boy was beaten to death at an Uttar Pradesh school over a spelling error, his teacher has been arrested.


The police had been looking for the teacher, Ashwini Singh, for a week.
On September 7, Nikhit Dohre, a Class 10 student, was struck with a stick and a rod and kicked until he fell unconscious. He was beaten for misspelling the word “social” in an exam, his father had said in his complaint to the police.

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The teacher, belonging to an upper caste community, first gave ₹ 10,000 for Nikhit’s treatment and then an additional ₹ 30,000, but later stopped responding to phone calls, according to the complaint. The victim’s father says when he confronted the teacher, he was abused with casteist slurs.

Nikhit died of his injuries on Monday. Senior police officer Charu Nigam said Ashwini Singh was arrested based on inputs from an informer. He had been hiding at a relative’s home, the police official added.

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