Eight-year-old student's windpipe damaged, teacher booked for assault

In a shocking incident, a Government schoolteacher thrust a wooden cane down an eight-year-old student’s throat for the latter’s failure to solve a mathematical problem in a Zilla Parishad school at Pimpalwadi village in Ahmednagar district 0f Maharashtra.

After being initially taken to a local hospital, the boy – identified as one Rohan Dattatreya Janjire — has been admitted to a hospital in Pune where he is being treated in an Intensive Care Unit (ICU).

The incident took place on Tuesday when in a Zilla Parishad school at Pimpalwadi in Karjat taluka of Ahmednagar district.

After Class-II student Rohan made a mistake in solving a problem given in the class, an enraged Mathematics teacher Chandrakant Sopan Shinde resorted to inhuman corporal punishment – that of thrusting a wooden cane down the student’s throat.  As a result, Rohan’s windpipe (trachea) and food pipe (Esophagus) were badly damaged and he was rendered speechless.

Rohan fell down in the class, choking and writhing in pain with blood oozing out of his severely damaged throat.  Despite efforts, he was in no position to utter a word.

Rohan was initially rushed to a hospital at the nearby temple town of Rashin, from where he was shifted to a hospital in Pune after his condition deteriorated.

Following the incident,  the child’s mother Sunita Janjire lodged a complaint with the Karjat taluka Police Station against the teacher concerned.

Taking serious cognisance of the incident, the school authorities have meanwhile suspended teacher Shinde and ordered an inquiry into the incident.

 Confirming that an FIR had been registered against the teacher, senior police official in-charge of the Karjat Police station S B Mhetre said: “We have booked Shinde on charges of assault. We have not yet arrested him. We are monitoring the condition of the student at the hospital. Once he recovers, we will record the student’s statement and if necessary enhance the charges and arrest the teacher”.