The incident took place in Begusarai district on Friday. Following media outrage over it, state education minister Ashok Choudhary ordered a probe into the matter on Saturday.
In a disgraceful incident, two sisters studying in a private school in Bihar, had to walk back home in a semi-naked state after the school administrators took their uniforms for failure to pay their fees on time.
The incident took place in Begusarai district on Friday. Following media outrage over it, state education minister Ashok Choudhary ordered a probe into the matter on Saturday.
While the younger sister, is 6, the elder, is 8. Both are students of B R Education Academy, Koria. "We were asked to strip by Anjana ma'am when our father told her that he will pay the due fee the next day. At first we refused, but she insisted and forcefully took our clothes," a teary eyed elder sister told reporters.
Their mother Manisha said, "When their father reached the school at dismissal time, the principal asked him to pay due fee of last two months. He said he will pay on Saturday. But the teacher took my daughters inside, striped their uniform and handed them back to their father only in their underclothes." She added that the local Mukhiya's wife took pity on them and gave a gamcha to cover up. "My daughters are only crying and refuse to eat anything," she said.
The victim's family has lodged a case with the local police station, following which police arrested the school's director N K Jha and teacher Anjana Kumari. "We have taken the matter very seriously. A probe is underway, and we have also questioned the school administrators," said Begusarai superintendent RK Mishra.
Jha and Kumari, however, refuted the allegations against them. "My moral standard is not so low that I will ask my own students to go home semi-naked," Jha said, and called it a political conspiracy against him. In her defence, Kumari said, "I am a woman too. How can you think I will ask a girl to derobe and go home?"
Minister Choudhary told reporters, "What has come across through media reports highlights insensitivity of the school administrators. I have asked our officials to find out about the incident and take appropriate action in the matter."
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