<p>A probe has been ordered into the incident in which a teacher allegedly thrashed a Dalit student for drinking water from a pitcher kept for teaching staff, in the primary school in Chhikhara village in Mahoba district.</p>.<p>Sub-Divisional Magistrate (SDM) Jitendra Singh has ordered the additional Basic Shiksha Adhikari to probe the incident and submit a report.</p>.<p>Meanwhile, angry family members of the boy and villagers created ruckus outside the tehsil office.</p>.<p><strong>Also Read | </strong><a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/opinion/main-article/who-will-protect-dalits-rights-1105627.html" target="_blank"><strong>Who will protect Dalits’ rights?</strong></a></p>.<p>The girl, a resident of Chhikhara village, is a student of Class 7 in a basic school.</p>.<p>She said that pitchers have been kept for teachers and students to drink water in the school.</p>.<p>On Saturday, on finding the pitcher meant for students, empty, she drank water from the pitcher of the teachers.</p>.<p>On this, assistant teacher Kalyan Singh beat her up.</p>.<p>The girl reached home and told her parents about the incident.</p>.<p>Her father Ramesh Kumar along with scores of villagers reached the school.</p>.<p>It is alleged that even then the concerned teacher misbehaved with them by using casteist words.</p>.<p>The group then reached the tehsil and created a ruckus and demanded action.</p>.<p>Additional BSA Gaurav Shukla said on Sunday that the statements of the teacher and the student have been recorded in the school.</p>.<p>The girl said that she had never been discriminated against before. The investigation report will be handed over to the senior authorities.</p>.<p>On the other hand, teacher Kalyan Singh said that the student was taking out water from the glass by putting her hand in the pitcher.</p>.<p>"She was scolded for this and I did not thrash the student," Singh maintained.</p>
<p>A probe has been ordered into the incident in which a teacher allegedly thrashed a Dalit student for drinking water from a pitcher kept for teaching staff, in the primary school in Chhikhara village in Mahoba district.</p>.<p>Sub-Divisional Magistrate (SDM) Jitendra Singh has ordered the additional Basic Shiksha Adhikari to probe the incident and submit a report.</p>.<p>Meanwhile, angry family members of the boy and villagers created ruckus outside the tehsil office.</p>.<p><strong>Also Read | </strong><a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/opinion/main-article/who-will-protect-dalits-rights-1105627.html" target="_blank"><strong>Who will protect Dalits’ rights?</strong></a></p>.<p>The girl, a resident of Chhikhara village, is a student of Class 7 in a basic school.</p>.<p>She said that pitchers have been kept for teachers and students to drink water in the school.</p>.<p>On Saturday, on finding the pitcher meant for students, empty, she drank water from the pitcher of the teachers.</p>.<p>On this, assistant teacher Kalyan Singh beat her up.</p>.<p>The girl reached home and told her parents about the incident.</p>.<p>Her father Ramesh Kumar along with scores of villagers reached the school.</p>.<p>It is alleged that even then the concerned teacher misbehaved with them by using casteist words.</p>.<p>The group then reached the tehsil and created a ruckus and demanded action.</p>.<p>Additional BSA Gaurav Shukla said on Sunday that the statements of the teacher and the student have been recorded in the school.</p>.<p>The girl said that she had never been discriminated against before. The investigation report will be handed over to the senior authorities.</p>.<p>On the other hand, teacher Kalyan Singh said that the student was taking out water from the glass by putting her hand in the pitcher.</p>.<p>"She was scolded for this and I did not thrash the student," Singh maintained.</p>