A teacher of a Government primary school in the district was arrested on Saturday for allegedly forcing students to kneel down on Wednesday in an inebriated state.
Earlier, the teacher Makarand Mahant was suspended on Thursday by the District Education Officer (DEO).
Many locals had demanded the authorities to arrest the teacher. “After due inquiry we found that the teacher was teaching under the influence of alcohol and creating nuisance in the school for which I filed an FIR against him with the Sukinda police,” said Block Education Officer (BEO) Shivaram Sahoo.
“Acting on the FIR of the BEO, we arrested the teacher under Sections- 294 (use of obscene language ), 323 (Punishment for voluntarily causing hurt ) and 506 (Punishment for criminal intimidation) of IPC,” said Sukinda PS IIC Bichitrananda Sethi.
He was produced in the court at Jajpur Road. The court rejected his bail application and remanded him into jail custody, added the IIC.
