Indian police are searching for a teacher accused of having beaten to death a student of a lower caste due to a spelling error, the authorities reported on Tuesday, repressing the protests triggered by the death of the minor.
Nikhil Dohre was beaten with a stick and kicked unconscious by his high school teacher for having misspelled a word on a test earlier this month, according to the complaint filed by his father.
The young man of 15 years died on Monday in a hospital in the north of the state of Uttar Pradesh from his injuries. His teacher is on the run. “He is on the run, but we will arrest him soon,” police officer Mahendra Pratap Singh told AFP.
The teacher is still at large
Dohre was a member of the Dalit community, found on the step lowest in India’s caste system and has been the target of prejudice and discrimination for centuries.
Hundreds of people took to the streets on Monday after news of Dohre’s death spread in the Auraiya district, where the incident took place. The crowd demanded the professor’s arrest and set a police vehicle on fire. A dozen protesters were arrested, Singh said.
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