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Ludhiana: Following a five-day protest outside the Division No. 7 police station by the kin of six-year-old Class I student Amayera Sood, who died in a mishap on school premises, asking for the arrest of the school principal, the police on Saturday arrested DP Guleria, principal of BCM Senior Secondary School , Sector 32, Chandigarh Road. The police had already arrested bus driver Simranjit Singh, who had crushed the girl under the front tyre of the bus on December 16.
However, Guleria and the school management were also booked. The kin of the girl were protesting outside the police station since December 16 seeking the arrest of the principal also. It was found that the school bus did not have any attendants, which is mandatory under the Safe School Vahan Policy.
In the absence of the attendant, Amayera on her own had alighted from the school bus and was crushed to death. The older students present there had picked her up and took her to the medical room of the school from where she further was taken to a nearby private hospital where the declared dead by the doctors. After the tragic incident, parents of others students had gathered outside school and raised concerns over the safety of the students.
Amayera’s parents along with others sat on a protest outside the police station. They had accused the school authority for tinkering with the evidence by washing blood from the spot and allegedly tampering with the CCTV footage. Sub Inspector Bhupinder Singh, SHO at division No.
7 police station, said the police had arrested principal DP Guleria. He was produced before a local court that has sent him to two-day police remand. We also published the following articles recently He is responsible tookin want school principal arrested A six-year-old girl, Amayera Sood, tragically died after being run over by her school bus in Ludhiana.
Her grieving family and other parents are protesting, demanding the arrest of the school principal, D.P. Guleria, alongside the bus driver.
They allege the principal's negligence regarding student safety and potential evidence tampering. Punjab: Class 1 student crushed to death in school premises in Ludhiana Tragedy struck a Ludhiana school on Monday as a Class 1 student, Amayera, was fatally hit by a school bus within the premises. The young girl was reportedly walking to her classroom when the incoming bus struck her.
Distraught parents and witnesses rushed her to a hospital, where she was declared dead. Police nab person accused of molesting school girl Ranchi police arrested Md Feroz Ali, accused of molesting a schoolgirl, after a video of the incident surfaced. A special investigation team apprehended him on Sunday.
Feroz allegedly molested multiple schoolgirls over several days. A reward of Rs 10,000 had been offered for information leading to his arrest. The investigation is ongoing.
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