Days after Class 4 boy thrown off school building, mother too dies in hospital

GADAG: Three days after a nine-year-old Class 4 student was killed by a teacher by throwing him off the roof of a school building, the boy’s mother, who had also sustained injuries in the incident, died at a hospital on Thursday.

On December 19, Bharat Barakerwas pushed from the roof of a school building by a guest teacher at Hadli village in Naragund taluk. The boy’s mother Geetha Baraker, who is also a teacher in the same school, and another teacher also sustained injuries in the incident.

The boy’s mother Geetha died on Thursday; (right) Muthappa Hadagali, a guest teacher, has been arrested.

Geetha had sustained serious injuries and was admitted to the KIMS Hospital in Hubballi. However, she did not respond to treatment and died on Thursday.

Muthappa Hadagali, a guest teacher at the Government Model Higher Primary School in Hadli, assaulted Bharat Baraker and pushed him from the roof of the school building, resulting in his death. The boy died enroute to hospital.

The government school in Hadli.

Bharat’s mother Geetha Baraker was also attacked by Muthappa with an iron rod when she questioned the attack on her son. Another, teacher, identified as Patil, too sustained had injuries when he tried to intervene. The Naragund police had earlier arrested Muthappa.