Overview
- The Block Education Officer suspended headmaster Raghunath Bugudai and assistant teacher Jatin Kumar Parida for dereliction of duty on directions from the Sub-Collector and District Education Officer.
- Both educators were ordered to receive 50% salary pending further orders, with Parida shifted to Mitrapur Nodal School and Bugudai posted to Kathapal UGUP School.
- District authorities formed a probe team led by the Nilagiri Deputy Collector with the District Social Welfare Officer and District Education Officer to investigate the incident at Begunia UGUP School.
- Officials recorded statements from school staff, the child, and his parents after a visiting teacher’s video showed the boy chained to a hostel bed, and they pledged action after verification.
- Accounts conflict over who fastened the chain and for how long, with the headmaster and the boy’s mother citing parental requests while the child alleged a hostel attendant chained him.