Nearly 360 students of Classes 9 to 12 at Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya in Guna’s Bajranggarh locked themselves inside their hostel for over three hours on Sunday evening, demanding the removal of the principal after he was accused of beating a Class 10 student who had complained about substandard food, officials said.
As the situation escalated, the school management informed district collector Kishore Kumar Kanyal, who is also the institution’s ex-officio chairman. By evening, naib tehsildar Narendra Singh Yadav and Bajranggarh police station in-charge Kripal Singh Parihar arrived with police forces. The students came out of their room after the district administration team reached the school.
The principal, HK Meena, was accused of brutally beating a Class 10 student in Bajranggarh village, seven kilometres from Guna.
“After hours of persuasion and assurances, the hostel gates were finally opened around 4am on Monday and the students agreed to eat,” said Parihar. The matter came to light on Wednesday after a team from the ministry of education reached the school to probe the matter.
