DEMONSTRATION

Demonstration over schoolboy's death

Local residents and guardians demonstrated at Kalabagan High School premises in Cooch Behar on Friday. They were expressing their anger over the death of a Class-V student of that school. Later, police appeared to pacify the demonstrators. The situation came under control after a meeting among the school authority, guardians and locals.

Sources said, a student of Class-V, Moni Jaswara (10) reportedly appealed for leave during school time due to sudden illness on Thursday. The teachers allegedly denied him from leaving school. In the afternoon he returned home with heavy fever and was shifted to a local hospital. As his condition worsened he was referred to a Siliguri hospital for treatment. On way to Siliguri he died at Jalpaiguri at about 3 a.m. in the ambulance.

The news of the boy's death turned the guardians and the locals angry. They started demonstrating at the school from Friday morning demanding punishment to the teachers concerned who denied the ailing boy to leave school.