Schoolboy spills beans on illegal tuition classes

Ravi Dhaliwal

Tribune News Service

Batala, April 27

A six-year-old boy, apparently irked over his parents’ decision to force him to attend tuition classes, vented his anger by guiding the cops to houses where the lucrative business was being carried out even as all such activity has been banned during the ongoing curfew.

DSP (Crime) Gurdeep Singh and his team were patrolling the area near the Thathiari gate when the officer started questioning a father-son duo as to why were they roaming the streets. The father was holding the arm of his son who started spilling the beans. He led the DSP to the houses where teachers were holding classes in violation of social distancing norms.

SSP Opinderjit Singh Ghuman said the police had prepared a list of such places and teachers, and would book them under Section 188 IPC (disobeying government orders).

“This is a serious offence,” he said.

“I was patrolling the street when I saw a boy and his father. When I questioned the latter, he said they were going to buy groceries. However, I noticed the boy was feeling a bit uneasy. Suddenly, he yanked off his father’s arm, and told us that his father was bringing him back home from a tuition class. When I asked him where he went to attend tuition classes, he guided us there. Not only this, he also told us that he knew many other houses where such activity was taking place,” said the DSP.

The SSP said the classes were being held in crowded rooms where nobody wore masks.

“This, in itself, is an infringement of curfew rules,” he said.