Assault on Arunachal Student in Guwahati School: ASCPCR Demands Immediate Shut Down

April 22: In a shocking incident, a differently abled child hailing from Arunachal Pradesh was assaulted by employees of the Residential Special School run by an organisation called Society for Health & Education Development (SHED).

In this connection, Assam police has arrested three persons and registered FIR against them. The incident came to light when the 8-year old boy was admitted to a private hospital in Guwahati on Tuesday with serious bruises on his body.

A case has been registered in the Sonapur police station with the police arresting its manager Hiranya Saikia, warden Shanti Niketan Singh and cook Kishan Kumar.

“We are probing into the incident and taking stern action against the NGO that runs the children home,” said Kamrup DC M Angamuthu. The children’s home run by an NGO called Society for Health, Education and Development (SHED) apparently called the mother to take the child back since because he is too unruly.

The mother, hailing from Papum Pare who had put up in a hotel in Guwahati, rushed to Sonapur, only to find her son writhing in pain with several bruises visible on his limbs. She immediately picked up her child and took him to a private hospital in the city.

Meanwhile, Utsah, an NGO working for protection of child rights has called for a thorough enquiry in a memorandum to chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal.

Assam State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (ASCPCR) demanded the school to be closed down because it lacks both adequate infrastructure as well as professionally qualified and trained personnel.

“The so-called special school is horrible. There is nothing to really call it a special school for differently abled children. It should be immediately shut down because it lacks both adequate infrastructure as well as professionally qualified and trained personnel,” Runumi Gogoi, chairperson of the ASCPCR, who visited the special school at Sonapur on the outskirts of Guwahati said on Friday

“The school authorities including the hostel warden and other caretakers denied having beaten the boy,” informed Gogoi, adding, “However, I took photographs of all the persons there and sent it to chairperson Arunachal Pradesh Commission for Protection of Children’s right, the boy pointed at one person wearing a pink shirt as the one who had beaten him up.”

Source: https://www.northeasttoday.in/