Bharat Gaurav awardee Srinagar school warden beats girls then goes underground

The Jammu and Kashmir government on Saturday described the warden of a girl's school hostel as psychopath and said she had gone underground after a case was registered against her for beating up the girl students.

"I met the girls whom she had beaten. One girl was hit in the abdomen and blood came out from her mouth. The way she has treated the girls it indicates she is a psychopath," the Minister for Education, Naeem Akhtar, said.

Of the seven injured students, one is still getting treated in the SMHS hospital while the others have been discharged.

REASON FOR BEATING THE GIRLS

According to the girls, the warden, Dr Shabnam Gurazi, beat them up after they refused to clean their room on Thursday as they were busy studying for exams.

The girls didn't disclose their bruises to anyone. However, the next day when they went to school the teachers were horrified on seeing their condition and send them for treatment to different hospitals.

Dr Shabnam is a recipient of Bharat Guarav award from the All India Human Welfare Council in 2015.

STRICT ACTION AGAINST THE WARDEN

Akhtar said strict action would be taken against the warden, whom he repeatedly mentioned as culprit.

He said the warden had used the lathi in the most brutal way. "Such people should not be the part of state's education system", he said. The minister said the government has placed the warden under suspension and an FIR has been lodged against her.

He said the culprit had gone into hiding and was avoiding her arrest by changing her hideouts regularly.

The hostel is known as Gujjar Bakerwal hostel, where mostly the girls of nomadic Gujjar tribe stay.

The students also alleged that the warden would force them to babysit her infant daughter. Also, she would often force them to wash her clothes.