Post-Mortem | Gruesome Classroom Attacks In Panchkula And Andhra Expose Severe Safety Gaps

Summary

A special report on school safety examines two horrific incidents of violence that unfolded inside classrooms. In Sector 20, Panchkula, a six-year-old kindergarten student with special needs was brutally assaulted by an eight-year-old classmate inside an empty classroom and left unconscious for hours. The incident triggered public outrage, leading to the suspension of the school principal and two teachers, an FIR under the Juvenile Justice Act and Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, and state-wide safety audits. Meanwhile, at a government high school in Raptadu, Andhra Pradesh, a 21-year-old man named…

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