Indian school principal nabbed for beating to death pupil over stolen pencil

‘Police officers in India have taken a school principal into custody for allegedly being accessory to beating to death of an 11-year-old male pupil over a stolen pencil at a school in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh.

The principal was detained on Thursday for “culpable homicide not amounting to murder,” an indictment that carries a maximum sentence of 10 years imprisonment, said police superintendent Abdul Hameed, noting that the pupil’s teacher had admitted to beating the boy at school after finding him with a pencil that a fellow student had lost.

“In our initial questioning, the principal confessed that he slapped and punched the young boy after the missing pencil was found on him,” Hameed said.’

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