Two teachers beat 'harasser' to death in Uttar Pradesh

BIJNOR: A 30-year-old man was beaten to death with sticks allegedly by two women teachers and a man inside a hostel campus in Bijnor after he “trespassed in an inebriated condition” and tried to "molest" one of the educators.
In a widely-circulated video, shot from the outside of an iron grill gate on the campus in Bijnor’s Kirathpur area, the Dalit man can be seen lying inside with his clothes sullied in blood. The women teachers, who were standing near the unconscious man, can be seen arguing with his agitated relatives who were on the other side of the gate.
Later, after police arrived, Jitender Kumar was taken to a local government hospital where he died during treatment.
Hours later, on Sunday morning, the accused were booked under IPC section 304 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder) and under provisions of SC/ST Act. Police didn’t comment when asked why murder charges were not pressed against the accused.
Superintendent of police (SP) of Bijnor, Dharamveer Singh, said, “The incident took place in an academy in Akbarabad village under Kotwali police station area of Bijnor on Saturday night. The two private teachers live on the academy premises. We have detained all the accused."
The teachers alleged that Jitender was harassing them for quite some time and it was not for the first time that he had barged into the premises.
Additional superintendent of police Sanjay Kumar said, “Jitender was involved in a spat with one of the teachers two months ago.”
Meanwhile, the relatives of Jitender claimed that he didn’t barge into the campus but was waylaid, beaten, dragged and locked inside.
“Jitender was taking his mother to a doctor on a motorcycle when he was attacked. They dragged him to academy premises and locked him. He sustained injuries on his head. When his mother informed other family members, they came, got him freed and took him to a community health centre (CHC) with the help of police. But he didn’t survive,” a relative said.