NAGPUR: Manish Raut (25), a choreographer, assaulted 17 14-year-old girl students with an iron rod after they performed wrong dance steps while practising for their
school’s annual function
. The incident happened at Suyash Convent which is located at
Vaibhav Nagar
in Dighori on Wednesday.
All the injured girls were students of Std VII, said cops. They have sustained serious injuries on legs and hands. Parents have expressed their anger over the incident.
The Hudkeshwar police have registered an offence of serious assault against Raut and arrested him.
A woman teacher heard the commotion and released them from being thrashed. She alerted the higher authorities and also informed Hudkeshwar police.
Cops said five students — Aishwarya Belmakonda, Prachi Khandade, Tanushree Wade, Lakshmi Akare and Prajokti Mandavkar — were seriously injured. Prajokti’s leg and hand got fractured and she is undergoing treatment at a private hospital.
Nitika Lambat, Palak Jaiswal, Mrudul Bhandarkar, Diksha Meshram and some others too received injuries.
Cops said the school had appointed three choreographers to train students for its annual function to be held on December 22. On Wednesday, Raut got upset after the students failed to grasp the Rajasthani folk dance steps and vented out his anger.
School director
Sanjay Mahakalkar
said Raut should get “the harshest punishment”. “We will take proper care of the injured girls,” he added.
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