15-yr-old boy stabs teacher to death in classroom
A class 9 boy of St Mary's Anglo Indian Higher Secondary School stabbed his teacher to death in a classroom on Thursday morning. He later told police that he was angry at her for scolding him.
The teacher Umamaheshwari taught science and Hindi in the school for the past 8 to 10 years, according to her colleagues.
Shock and fear gripped the school on Armenian Street in Parrys as 15-year-old boy, son of a daily labourer, repeatedly stabbed his science teacher Uma Maheswari (42) in the neck and face. Maheswari was sitting in another class on the first floor of a three-storey school building when the boy stormed in with a knife around 10.30am.
"He stabbed her first in the neck," said an eyewitness, "and inflicted cut injuries again on her cheek and neck. She died on the spot." When the other students cried out loud, he threatened them and ran out, but was caught by teachers and students, the witness said. He was handed over to police.
"The boy came with a knife wrapped in a paper," a policeman investigating the case said. "He said he was angry because the teacher scolded him. We don't know yet if there is any other reason."
His schoolmates said he was not an aggressive child, but was quite aloof. "He never used to mingle with others," a student said.
Shock and fear gripped the school on Armenian Street in Parrys as 15-year-old boy, son of a daily labourer, repeatedly stabbed his science teacher Uma Maheswari (42) in the neck and face. Maheswari was sitting in another class on the first floor of a three-storey school building when the boy stormed in with a knife around 10.30am.
"He stabbed her first in the neck," said an eyewitness, "and inflicted cut injuries again on her cheek and neck. She died on the spot." When the other students cried out loud, he threatened them and ran out, but was caught by teachers and students, the witness said. He was handed over to police.
"The boy came with a knife wrapped in a paper," a policeman investigating the case said. "He said he was angry because the teacher scolded him. We don't know yet if there is any other reason."
His schoolmates said he was not an aggressive child, but was quite aloof. "He never used to mingle with others," a student said.
Sources in the school said, when the teacher was waiting in an empty classroom for the fourth period of the day to begin, the boy allegedly walked in and is believed to have slashed her throat and stabbed her in the stomach. The teacher raised an alarm which brought others rushing into the room. She died before she could be taken to hospital. Other students and teachers gheraoed the boy and later handed him over to police.
A classmate’s parent, Ajmal Khan alleged that the boy was angry with the teacher for some time. “He was waiting for sometime and when he got the opportune moment, he carried out the act,” Ajmal Khan said. Police officials came and later took him to the police station. Umamaheshwari’s body was sent to Government General Hospital for post-mortem.
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