Assaulting and causing grievous hurt to a group of students Principal and three teachers taken into custody

• Five male students had secretly entered the girls’ hostel to  meet five female students with their consent 

By Shane Seneviratne  

The principal and three teachers of a private school at Morankanda in Bokkawala in Kandy, arrested on suspicion of assaulting and causing grievous hurt to a group of students, were taken into custody by Women and Children’s Bureau of the Kandy police yesterday.

Police said three of the female students between 15 and 17 years of age who fled from the school hostel after the alleged assault and three teachers who came in search of them were handed over to the Women and Children’s Bureau by the Dalada Maligawa Police when the three girls refused to go back with the teachers .  

Inquiries revealed that disciplinary action had been taken against five male students who had secretly entered the girls’ hostel on Sunday night (12). It is alleged that they had entered the girl’s hostel to meet five female students with their consent. Police said the students concerned had been subject to assault and cruelty and even their hair had been cut.  

After preliminary investigations, Women and Children’s Bureau arrested the principal, two lady teachers functioning as matrons of the girls’ hostel and a teacher in charge of the boys’ hostel in connection with the alleged assault.