Nalanda: A director of a school was brutally beaten to death by a mob in Nalanda district of Bihar following protests against the deaths of two students.
Nalanda police station in-charge Sunil Kumar said the bodies of Ravi Kumar and Sagar Kumar, students of the residential (Devendra Public School) DPS, were fished out from a water-filled ditch near Nirpur village located close to the school.
The incident sparked off protest by local people who torched a van and set two rooms of the school on fire using an LPG cylinder and assaulted the school Director Devendra Prasad, Kumar said.
Six policemen were also injured in stone pelting by the mob, Kumar said.
The school director earlier briefed media about the incident claiming both the students had left the school premises without informing the authorities, following which a search was launched to track them and the bodies were found lying in the ditch.
Prasad was seen in CCTV footage as being beaten up by a mob who rained blows from lathis while the DPS director lay on ground, school authorities said.
Some people kicked him, while some others assaulted him with fists to protest against the death of two DPS students, aged around 7-8 years, they said.
Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) NK Rajak went to the spot to pacify the mob who initially refused to hand over the bodies to the police.
The SP said the district police has taken cognizance of the incident and the process for lodging an FIR against those responsible was underway.
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