Thugs sent to beat parents who protested because netball teacher allegedly assaulted student

Thugs sent to beat parents who protested because netball teacher allegedly assaulted student

A male sports teacher has been taken into custody over an incident of allegedly assaulting a 15 year old schoolgirl of Gampola Nugawela Nayapana Maha Vidyalaya.

The victim has said that she was not able to attend netball practices as she was sick; at which moment the sports teacher had lost his temper and had assaulted the girl after which she was hospitalized. Though the

schoolgirl was admitted to Gampola Teaching Hospital with injuries sustained in the assault, the police have not initially not taken steps to arrest the teacher concerned.

In the process a group of parents have protested in front of the school to the effect that injustice had been done and on that occasion some thugs who appeared on behalf of the said teacher had arrived on the scene and had created trouble and dispersed them after which a heated situation had flared up. 

The girl under reference had been following netball practices and as she had felt sick last Monday she had told that she was not able to attend practices. This teacher had then beaten up the girl after which the parents of the girl had lodged a complaint about it with Gampola Police and Pussellawa Police. However, no proper inquiry was conducted for 5 days neither by the school nor the police which then provoked these parents to engage in a peaceful protest in this connection on Friday (23). During their protest a crowd of young men and young women who supported the teacher who emerged from the school grounds had grabbed the placards of protest in the hands of the protestors who engaged in this peaceful protest and had torn them apart. They had even damaged cameras of mediamen who had been present there.

Subsequently, Gampola and Pussellawa Police who arrived at the spot have brought the matter to a settlement with Pussellawa Police arresting the suspect teacher. He was then produced before Nawalapitiya Magistrate Mr. Shrinith Wijeysekera on Friday afternoon and was released on a bail of Rs. 50000. It was one Eranda Deshapriya Bandara Nagahawatta living in Harangala who was thus arrested. When Mr. Upali Hennayaka, the principal was questioned about this, what he said was that he was not present in school at the time of that incident.