Salary despite order to the contrary

Statesman News Service
MALDA,( India). Nov. 18. — A primary school teacher who is in Malda jail for the past two months has allegedly been receiving salary from the school despite the order of non-payment of salary by the chairman of the district primary school council (DPSC).

The incident came to light following a fresh allegation raised by a tribal woman who was allegedly tortured by the primary school teacher a few months ago.

“The DPSC officials on Friday discussed the issue of salary payment to the prisoner and have decided to take necessary action to stop payment of salary”, a senior official of the primary education department said today .

According to the official, a tribal woman named Ms Phulin Tudu had alleged that the primary teacher, Mr Rabindranath Dhali, had promised to marry her and forced her into a live-in relationship, but after a month he refused to marry her.

The tribal woman also alleged that in the name of removing a tumour from her body through an operation, her uterus was extracted in the process, which was the result of a conspiracy hatched by the primary school teacher.

Phulin had lodged a complaint with the Adina circle office of the education department on 25 August this year and lodged the first information report with the Malda police station on 17 September.

The police arrested him on the basis of the woman’s complaint and have put the primary school teacher behind bars. #