MULTAN:
A fifth class student was beaten allegedly by her teacher when she refused to make tea for her during a lesson, police said.

The girl was taken to the Jahanian tehsil headquarters hospital, from where she was sent to Nishtar Hospital in Multan.

Police said the girl, 10, a resident of Thattha Sadiqabad in Chak 132/10-R, had been studying at the Government Girls Primary School in the neighbourhoods.
They said the teachers had set up a tea bar at the school, and used to ask students to make tea for them.

On Monday, they said, her teacher, Shamim Bibi, told her to make tea. They said she (student) told her that she did not want to miss her lesson and that she would not make tea.

On hearing this, they said, the teacher beat her up with a stick.
They said she also banged the girl’s head on her desk several times “for refusing to a teacher”.

They said when she fainted, the teacher sent another student to her house to inform her family. The girl’s uncle said the teacher told him that the girl had fallen from a desk she was standing on. He said her head was injured and she had lost a lot of blood.

She was taken to the Jahanian THQ hospital, where she was given first aid. She was later sent to Nishtar Hospital in Multan. Medical Superintendent Khalid Naseem told The Express Tribune that the girl’s head was severely injured. He said she had suffered a deep cut on her head which, he said, seemed to have been caused by a nail or a sharp edge of the desk.
A case has been registered with Thattha Sadiqabad police.
Station House Officer Qamar Zia said the medical examination report indicated criminal assault.

He said the teacher had gone missing. He said a police team was looking for her. He said the girl’s family had received threatening calls telling them to withdraw the complaint. “We are looking into that matter as well,” he said.

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