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Bantwal: Veda teacher who thrashed boy arrested, released on bail

  •   Sat, Sep 12 2015 08:32:50 PM

Mounesh Vishwakarma
Daijiworld Media Network - Bantwal

Bantwal, Sep 12: The police on Saturday September 12 arrested the Veda teacher who was caught on camera thrashing and abusing a boy with a fractured arm.

The accused, Shyam Sunder Shastri (43), a resident of Urimajalu surrendered himself to Vittal police on Saturday, after which he was arrested.

The video showing Shastri beating a boy with a fractured arm, aged around 10 years, had gone viral on WhatsApp and other social media. Though the incident took place in May this year, it came to light only earlier this week, after the video was uploaded on social media.

The incident took place at a Veda camp organized in Vittal temple. The video also shows Shastri asking the boy in an angry tone if he was a 'Brahmana' or a 'Kshatriya'.

Taking serious note of the case, B K Sesappa, leader from Vittal Dalit Seva Samiti had filed a complaint urging the Vittal police to investigate the matter and take strict action against Shastri.

Soon after the police registered the case, Shastri absconded and the police began a search for him.
Vittal Dalit Seva Samiti, CITU and SFI staged a protest meet on Friday September 11.

On Saturday, Shyam Sunder Shastri appeared in Vittal police station accompanied by his lawyer, after which he was arrested. Soon, he was released on bail.

The incident garnered attention of the national media too.

 
  

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  • Albert, Mangalore

    Mon, Sep 14 2015

    Religious teachers should be banned from the world. Priests, Nuns, Purohits, Mullahs, Imam etc are venom to the mankind. many are involved in pedophilia, rape, extortion, goonda act etc.
    If you are honest and pure is there any necessary to go to these elements and ask for blessings??shame shame !!

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  • Jossey Saldanha, Mumbai

    Sun, Sep 13 2015

    Yeda teacher ...

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  • navin, mangalore

    Sun, Sep 13 2015

    Teach him that Humanity is first then comes Veda.

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  • Viraj M Holamoge, Udupi

    Sun, Sep 13 2015

    Really how could a teacher hit a boy like this.Does he not have his own children? Would he have given the same treatment to them. Now that he is released on bail I think there will be no punishment also awarded. As usual mockery of our law in India. Pity India.

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  • Flavian, Mangaluru/Kuwait

    Sun, Sep 13 2015

    Next video going viral may be police beating some under-trials or innocent/framed victims!
    Thanks to modern technology

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  • Ramakrishna A K , Mangalore

    Sun, Sep 13 2015

    It was a Havyaka Brahmin Veda School. So who arranged for Bail of Teacher ? was it havyaka Don from Kalladka ?

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  • CONRAD JOHN TAURO, SHIRVA/UDUPI/DUBAI

    Sun, Sep 13 2015

    Give him garam treatment...

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  • Suman, Mangalore

    Sun, Sep 13 2015

    Looks like here some people condemning this only because he is VEDA teacher. Like their problem is not with teacher but with the term Veda.

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  • hussain, managlore

    Sun, Sep 13 2015

    Modi's elevation inspired veda teacher

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  • Arif Shabu, Uchila

    Sun, Sep 13 2015

    Only Vittal Dalit Seva Samiti, CITU and SFI staged a protest....

    Were is so called Dharma Rakshak group(KFD, PFI,SRS,RS,BD & ABVP)

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  • Willy, Mangalore

    Sun, Sep 13 2015

    Wow first absconding, then comes with a lawyer to be arrested and a well done home work by the lawyer and soon gets released. How days he was missing so many days he should be jail, then only bail. Wow what a Indian system of bail, looks like its on sale with the lawyers.

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  • krish, Dubai

    Sun, Sep 13 2015

    One thing i dnt understand that "B K Sesappa, leader from Vittal Dalit Seva Samiti had filed a complaint".

    Parents of student didnt file any complaint. Institution didnt filed any complaint.

    what is interest to dalit samiti by this issue??? because now a days no one do anything without benifit.
    y dalit samiti kept quite for 3 or 4 months?
    "Daane mein kuch kaala hai"

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  • Tomcat , Mangalore

    Sun, Sep 13 2015

    I physically bashed my PT teacher and injured him top to toe for pulling me by my tie. I was suspended for one week from classes at the same time PT teacher received a warning not to touch boys of high school in bangalore.

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  • stan, dubai

    Sun, Sep 13 2015

    You were suspended and teacher was given warning but our time no warning to the teacher if he does anything wrong but at home we are not allowed to eat for 2 days.

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  • Elias Cutinha, Bondel / Nagaland

    Sun, Sep 13 2015

    I had a stammering problem. Neither the teacher nor the classmates supported me to overcome the my problem. Just they are happy to tease and laugh. But if they know, what I am today... they will bow their heads...

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  • Ramesh Shetty, Shivapura, USA

    Sun, Sep 13 2015

    Manuvadi's are back in action after NDA came to power...no wonder people elect congress though they proved to be corrupt again and again..

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  • ibrahim, Mangaluru

    Sun, Sep 13 2015

    No lungi dance at station?

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  • Jaya Prakash Shetty, Mangalore/UK

    Sat, Sep 12 2015

    Dear all,
    2 points-
    1. I condemn physical punishments
    2. I also condemn giving religious and caste colour to everything. Having studied in jesuit institution (I am very grateful for the education they provided) this type of beating was common. BBC also ran a story about 2 Koran teachers who have been jailed in Birmingham UK for beating a boy mercilessly with stick which was done for reciting the Koran wrongly. So this beating some people do has got nothing to do with religion and caste. (In this case I have been told by some friends in Vittla that the reason he was asking if the boy was Brahmin or Kshatriya was not because of castism but because the boy apparently was sitting in a chair in the temple which is reserved only for the "Arasu" ie the royal family (who are Kshatriya) and apparently no one except the royal family can use the chair. This of course does not justify beating, it only says people are giving caste angle when none exists)

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  • ca girishkk, m'lore/dxb

    Sat, Sep 12 2015

    In the best interest of the public.., the top level Brahmin controlled think tank of reputed Hindu cultural organisations having pan India presence to give their opinion or clarify their position.

    Why the Brahmin mind set is so low against other non-brahmin people.

    In the above instance the veda teacher mending the fellow brahmin boy's mind (in order to keep a gap/distance) towards other fellow non-brahmins Hindu's.

    In my opinion the proposed or much talked about BJP's Uniform Civil code must address these kind of anomalies which prevail within Hindu's.

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  • PEDDU, MANGALURU

    Sat, Sep 12 2015

    VEDA TEACHER IS VEDA TEACHER !! PUPILS TO BE LEARNED IN THE TENDER AGE !! HOWEVER !! THE TEACHER SHOULD HAVE LEARNT OR EDUCATE HIMSELF TO HOW TO TEACH THE PUPIL THRU MODERN EDUCATION !!

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  • Venku Panamburu, Mangalore

    Sat, Sep 12 2015

    Its very sad to watch the boy crying. A strict action should be taken against this teacher and it should be a lesson for other teachers like him. However, on the lighter note.. when I was young, children like me used to take beatings at home, with neighbours and at school. It was very usual those days..no human rights..no child rights..But now a days people have become too sensitive and understand the rights of other human being.. Good that we are changing.

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  • Acchu, M,lore

    Sat, Sep 12 2015

    Fight with those who is capable to defend with you At least, he is called as a man.
    Shame on you shastri, better to hang yourself rather living in the society.

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  • ISMAIL K PERINJE, PERINJE

    Sat, Sep 12 2015

    Mindset of Vedic teacher just like ISIS Intl!!!Indigenous Indian ISIS!!!Broken hand of child also not spared by (VEDA) so called teacher.Arrest ok but release on bail?

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  • Bryan, Bahrain

    Sat, Sep 12 2015

    What else can you get from our judiciary system, teacher goes to jail, the next minute the teacher gets bail, everybody thought that the teacher would get nailed, but we all know he will never fail, of beating innocent kids, black and blue again...

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  • john pinto, mangalore/dubai

    Sat, Sep 12 2015

    today I was watching this episode carefully, the boy with his fractured hand screeming and crying saying innu maduvudilla,first I thought it is a rape case, shame on this teacher.he is fit for police department.

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  • Abdul kader, Kasragod,

    Sat, Sep 12 2015

    ther is no any WONDER.

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  • nationalist, mangalore

    Sat, Sep 12 2015

    They released may be due to pressure from sanghaparivar.Otherwise tomorrow a bharath bandh and stones are thrown many religious places window pans.

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  • Praveen, Kulshekar

    Sat, Sep 12 2015

    Mastrey encha itthnd police station? Boda baaleda pett? Inspector brahne na Kshatriya? Dhane abvp bokka sene semelu protest malthijer?

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  • nowfal, kasaragod

    Sat, Sep 12 2015

    The chaddies are arrested only for namesake.

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  • V V Gladys Noronha , Kuwait

    Sat, Sep 12 2015

    Is he teaching vedha or Ahimsa?

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  • Jossey Saldanha, Mumbai

    Sat, Sep 12 2015

    Sushma must have helped ...

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  • A. S. Mathew, U.S.A.

    Sat, Sep 12 2015

    The Veda teacher needs to suffer some practical lesson of public punishment.

    I don't want to hurt anybody but would be greatly delighted to have a chance to whip him in the public for mishandling a defenseless young boy physically and emotionally in front of his friends. Vedas of torturing he must experience.

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  • Langoolacharya., Belman/Washington,DC.

    Sat, Sep 12 2015

    People,

    Veda teacher Shyam Sunder Shastri should be made Karate teacher...

    I have seen this type of disciplining of students everyday in Schools and houses in 70s and 80s...may be this is big news nowadays's..but personally I am against this perhaps this does more bad than good...

    ...JH...

    ...JH...

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  • A. S. Mathew, U.S.A.

    Sat, Sep 12 2015

    The physical pain of the boy will fade away but the emotional pains and the critical whirlwind against him from his friends will scar him for a very long time, may be for ever and he would be turning sometimes as an anti-social human being due to this "Veda" medication mistreatment.

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  • HENRY MISQUITH, Bahrain

    Sat, Sep 12 2015

    If this were to happen in America the teacher would be behind bars immediately. What is the Indian police waiting for? Arrest the teacher. Protect the child from the abuser. He is not worthy to be called a teacher. Shame on this teacher turned butcher.

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  • A. S. Mathew, U.S.A.

    Sat, Sep 12 2015

    He is a divine "Vedic teacher"
    transporting the children to heaven through public abuse who will touch him? He may get a new posting as the "Minister of Veda" in New Delhi like the newly created "Yoga" Minister.

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  • Langoolacharya., Belman/Washington,DC.

    Sat, Sep 12 2015

    Wow, Veda teacher and his 5 buddies already disagreed with me...common guys I need many more...this increases my resolve..

    ...JH...

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  • Charles D'Mello, Pangala

    Sat, Sep 12 2015

    I still hate the teachers who beat me in second standard and in 7 standard...for no fault of mine....I will never forget them till I die. But I will never take them as part of my daily life....Kally vally (Arabic)

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