A five-year-old student of a madrassa died after his teacher and two accomplices allegedly beat him with sticks and kicked him at Karariwala Kalan village in Gujrat on Friday, media reports have stated.
The boy’s father Shah Zaman Khan of Swat, who currently lives in Amra Kalan village near Dinga town, said he received a call around noon that his son Eesa was in critical condition at Madrassa Jalalia Mazhar Islam.
“When I reached the madrassa, I found my son brutally beaten by his teacher Hafiz Arfan, Afzaal and another unidentified suspect,” the father said in his complaint.
Doctors at the Dinga Civil Hospital confirmed Eesa’s death soon after he was shifted there.
The complainant’s elder son Musa, aged seven, also studies at the same madrassa. He told his father that the teacher and his aides had subjected his younger brother to severe physical assault.
Police reached the madrassa and collected evidence, while a Punjab Forensic Science Agency team gathered forensic samples from the crime scene. Doctors conducted an autopsy at the Kharian Tehsil Headquarters Hospital before handing over the body to the family.
Police registered a case under sections 302 and 34 of the Pakistan Penal Code against the two nominated suspects and one unidentified accomplice.
A Gujrat police spokesman said investigation teams have been formed to trace and arrest the culprits.