A personal faculty in Lahore expelled 5 college students, together with the sufferer of bullying, after a video of the lady being tortured by her classmates went viral on social media, prompting authorities to take discover and launch an investigation.
In keeping with police officers, the college administration didn’t cooperate with the police and refused to supply the CCTV footage of the incident to the investigating officer.
Nonetheless, the statements of 4 eyewitnesses have been recorded.
The seven accused named within the case of violence towards the scholar embody the principal Bilal and canteen worker Nasir, amongst others.
A five-member committee was additionally fashioned by the schooling division to analyze the matter.
The video footage, which was shared quite a few instances on Twitter on Friday, exhibits two to 3 teenage women holding the alleged sufferer by the hair and pinning her to the bottom.
The ladies may very well be heard verbally abusing the alleged sufferer and telling her to “apologize”.
One other lady may very well be seen recording a video of the episode on her cell phone.
The official accounts of the Capital Metropolis Police Lahore and the Punjab Police had responded to the video shared on Twitter, saying a case was registered and that an investigation was launched into the incident.
The primary info report (FIR) was registered on the grievance of the sufferer’s father. In keeping with the FIR, the complainant has mentioned that her daughter was crushed by three of her class fellows at a personal faculty situated in DHA Part 4 Lahore.
The daddy claimed within the FIR that his daughter’s class fellows have been drug addicts and have been “forcing my daughter into the drug tradition which compelled me to ship a video of her doing medicine to her father”.
“With a view to take revenge from my daughter, they assaulted her on the sixteenth of January, 2023,” the complainant states within the FIR.
The sufferer’s father claimed that the ladies “tried to strangle my daughter and stabbed her with knives a number of instances. Additionally they stole her gold jewelry price 1.5 tola”.
In keeping with the sufferer’s father, the movies have been recorded and shared on social media by a number of folks witnessing and recording the incident, and he has sought the Federal Investigation Division’s assist on this regard as nicely.