The Uttar Pradesh Police on Thursday booked the block training officer of Kurwar in Sultanpur district for abetment of suicide after a faculty headmaster allegedly killed himself for being scolded as he was absent from obligation.
A primary data report (FIR) was registered on the Kurwar police station in opposition to the BEO, Manojit Rao, underneath Sections 306 (abetment of suicide) and 506 (prison intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
“We are investigating the case,” mentioned Gauri Shankar Pal, an official on the police station.
The BEO has been faraway from the publish and a departmental inquiry has been launched in opposition to him.
Surya Prakash Dwivedi, 52, the headmaster in-charge of Chitta Junior Excessive Faculty, consumed poison on Monday and died at a authorities hospital in Lucknow early on Tuesday. The dying led to an enormous uproar, with a academics’ organisation holding protest over the matter.
The household of the deceased refused to cremate the physique till their calls for have been met. Their calls for included the submitting of a case in opposition to the official, job to a member of the family, and monetary help. They relented after senior district officers ensured them of correct motion.
District Justice of the Peace Kritika Jyotsna ordered a magisterial inquiry into the incident. Sub Divisional Justice of the Peace (SDM) Chandra Prakash Pathak has been requested to conduct the inquiry and submit a report inside 15 days.
Of their criticism, the household mentioned that Dwivedi was on go away final Saturday to take care of his ailing son when the BEO reached the college for an inspection.
The BEO reprimanded Dwivedi when he tried to clarify the explanation for his absence. Shocked and aggrieved by this, Dwivedi consumed toxic substance on Monday afternoon.