Teacher's physical torture kills 11-years-old girl in Ghizer

Gilgit: According to the police, an 11-year-old girl student passed away on Monday allegedly because of the harsh physical punishments given by a female teacher in a public sector school in Ghizer district.

The blamed teacher and the late female student belong to Sherqila area. Ghizer police have arrested the teacher and also have started investigation into the case.

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SP Ghizer Faisal Zahoor while talking to media sources said that the parents of the victim, a student of girls middle school Sherqila in Ghizer district, filed an application along with the women police station Ghahkuch, claiming that their child died in a hospital because of the teacher’s violence.

Accoridng to the complaints, the girl was struck along with an iron rod by her teacher during the class, saying that the legs of the girl were badly hit, which caused septicity in her leg bones.

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“When the victim was admitted to a private hospital in the region, it was recommended by the doctors for her to be shifted to Combined Military Hospital (CMH) in Gilgit for better treatment,” said the parents, additionally saying that the girl died in the CMH on Monday morning.

SP Zahoor informed that after autopsy the body was handed over to the relatives of the girl. He also said that it was still to be inspected either the girl died of the suspected torture or any another suffering.

In this regard, a case was registered in the women police station Ghahkuch, in the district headquarters of Ghizer.

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The police officer said that when Ghizer police personnel reached Sherqila to arrest the teacher on Monday, the cops were attacked by a few of the people in that region along with the stones.

FIR was registered against the people who attacked the cops.