Teacher beats up student for criticising Osama bin Laden

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Publication: www.expressindia.com
Date: September 15, 2001

A class five student had to be hospitalised on being severely beaten up by his Urdu teacher for making remarks against Saudi billionaire Osama bin Laden during a discussion on the terrorist attacks in US, police said on Saturday.The teacher got so infuriated on hearing the student, Koushik Dey's remarks against Laden on Friday that he pounced on him and thrashed him in a high school in West Bengal's Birbhum district, they said. The boy had to be taken to hospital for treatment, they added. While the headmaster of the school said the teacher had apologised for his action, boy's father has lodged a complaint in Suri police station.
 


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