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Eight‑year‑old boy leads father to bloodied classroom after assaulting six‑year‑old in Panchkula school

By HT News Desk

Between 3 pm and 4 pm on 28 October, an eight‑year‑old boy allegedly attacked a six‑year‑old girl inside a government school in Sector 20, Panchkula, Haryana. The boy reportedly lured the girl into an empty classroom by telling her that her father was coming to the school. He then allegedly hit her seven to eight times with a brick, banged her head against a bench and struck her with an aluminium dustbin. After leaving the room, he returned about half an hour later and assaulted her again. The girl went missing when an auto‑rickshaw driver arrived to pick her up after school. Unable to locate her, the driver informed her father, who rushed to the school. The boy approached the father and offered to take him to the classroom where the girl lay unconscious in a pool of blood.

A video purportedly showing the assault surfaced on social media on Saturday and was widely circulated. The footage appears to show the boy pulling the girl by her hair and repeatedly banging her head against a desk, then kicking her and hitting her with an object that looks like a brick. Hindustan Times could not independently verify the authenticity of the video.

The Education Department of Haryana has suspended two Junior Basic Training teachers with immediate effect in connection with the case, according to PTI. An FIR has been registered against the school management for alleged negligence. Preliminary police findings point to lapses in security arrangements and student supervision.