News Tamil Nadu: 8 teachers held for 'forcing' Dalit students to clean toilets for months

[Deepu]

Faced with a series of agitations, police on Wednesday arrested eight teachers for allegedly forcing Dalit students to clean toilets in a government-aided high school at a village in the district.

Backed by some political outfits, local Dalits have been staging a series of agitations in the past weeks demanding action against the teachers alleging that they were forcing the students of the school in Keelapathai Pandithankurichi near Kalakkad.

They charged that Dalit students had been cleaning the toilets for the past more than eight months. Though complaints were given under the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, no action was taken by the Police.

Tamil Nadu: 8 teachers held for 'forcing' Dalit students to clean toilets for months - IBNLive

 

[piinku1]

I think it is common in govt. pry. school.There are no peons,sweepers in primary school.So all the students irrespective caste are assigned to clean schools.

 

[NinadG]

Govt school students are made to do these sort of things sometimes.....I think last year also a woman teacher was caught for making students massage her feet....

 

[IndianMascot]

These teachers should be banned from teaching and forcefully given job to clean gutters of the city