Jharkhand: Two convent school students held after pistol found in classroom
Press Trust of India | December 21, 2022 | 04:28 PM IST | 1 min read
A class 9 student was found carrying a country-made pistol in his bag to give it to a class 8 boy, Both students held and are being investigated.
JHARKHAND: Two students of an English-medium convent school were held in Jharkhand's Ramgarh district after one of them was found to be carrying a country-made pistol to the classroom, police said on Wednesday.
The pistol was found by a teacher in the bag of a class 9 student of the CBSE-affiliated school in the Bhurkunda police station area on Tuesday, they said. The school authorities then informed the police, who rushed to the school and seized the firearm, sub-divisional police officer of Patratu Birendra Kumar Chaudhary said.
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The suspicious behaviour of a student in the classroom had drawn the attention of the teacher, following which the pistol was found, he said. The student told the police that he brought the pistol to the school to give it to a class 8 boy, he added. Both the students were held, police said, refusing to divulge further details. The matter is being investigated from all angles, they said.
In other news, Jharkhand has seen a significant drop of 58% in student attendance of upper primary level and 68% at the primary level. The report, prepared on the basis of a survey conducted in 138 state-run schools across 16 districts of the state, stated that 53 per cent of teachers admitted that students have forgotten how to read and write after the schools reopened following the pandemic.
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