Teacher arrested for bashing students


A TEACHER in India who beat up 32 students over some damage to his motorbike was arrested by the police, Makkal Osai reported.

Ujwal Prakash Soni, who works at a private boarding school in Maharashtra, suspected the students had damaged his motorbike.

He attacked the students aged between 11 and 17 with a bamboo cane and threatened to punish them further after he became the school head.

The school’s headmaster filed a police report after 32 students were injured and the teacher was arrested and charged.

> Johor MIC’s Puteri wing helped 41 Indian residents register for the state’s low cost housing scheme, Malaysia Nanban reported.

Its chairperson, Logeswari Kamalagaran, said some Indian residents lost out in the scheme when the application process went fully online.

The registration programme, which was held at the Kluang MIC office helped 41 Indian residents from the low income group apply for the housing scheme, she said.

 The above article is compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with this ' >'sign, it denotes a separate news item.

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