Framed in mishap case by school, parent walks free

CHANDIGARH: A parent was acquitted by a local court in a case of alleged negligent driving resulting in injury to a student after the court found that the parent and the management of Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya School, Sector 25, did not have good relations and the complainant in the case stated that the “school pressured him”.

Sandeep Rana

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, March 30

A parent was acquitted by a local court in a case of alleged negligent driving resulting in injury to a student after the court found that the parent and the management of Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya School, Sector 25, did not have good relations and the complainant in the case stated that the “school pressured him”.

Vinod Indora, a resident of Sector 49, who had submitted several complaints against the school, some of these to the HRD Ministry and the Prime Minister, had told the court that he was framed by the school in the accident case and the child in question got injured after falling.

Judicial Magistrate (First Class) Gurkiran Singh noted in the order that complainant Ranjit Verma, a student of Class XII, did not support the case of the prosecution. He said no such incident took place and he fell near the car.

“...He stated that he was pressured by the school authorities to depose against the accused. He has clarified that he did not receive any injury. Following his testimony, it is clear that the accused and the school management did not have good relations,” said the Judge.

Vinod Indora was booked under Sections 279 (rash driving or riding on a public way) and 337 (causing hurt by an act endangering the life or personal safety of others) of the IPC on October 11, 2015.

Complainant Ranjit had stated that he was waiting for his parents outside the school gate when an Alto car came and tried to hit his teacher, Madhu Singh. He called out to his teacher to get aside. The car driver did not stop the vehicle and instead hit him on the left foot.

Parents had moved panel against school

Parents, including the accused in the case, had submitted a complaint to the Chandigarh Commission for Protection of Child Rights (CCPCR) alleging that the school was making its students clean toilets, bathrooms and classrooms, apparently in the name of the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan.

Son’s result today

The accused’s child appeared for the Class VIII exams and the result will be announced on Friday. Earlier, the child was reportedly asked not to come to the school by the authorities stating that there was a threat to his life.