The Indian teacher accused of twisting and dislocating a finger of one of his students at Th. Kandoodhoo School, who had been arrested earlier on Tuesday morning, has been released.
Maldives Police Service confirms the teacher has been released after collecting his statement regarding the case, and added the authority was investigating the case further.
The teacher reportedly struck the student, an 11-year-old boy, with the boy’s own water bottle during the break period on Monday morning.
Speaking with Sun Online, the student’s father said the teacher came and grabbed his son’s finger and twisted after this, resulting in it being dislocated. According to the father, the teacher had relocated the joint immediately after and paid no further attention to his son.
The father alleged that the teacher did not inform any relevant authority from the school and added that he learned about his son’s injury from the class teacher who had contacted him not long after the incident since the boy had been crying due to severe pain.
The boy was first treated at Kandoodhoo Health Centre and was later transferred to Thaa Atoll Hospital in Veymandoo for further treatment. According to the father, police officers were present at Thaa Atoll Hospital to collect details about the incident.
Upon returning to Kandoodhoo, the father said he learned the school had sent the teaching in question to Omadhoo.
Kandoodhoo council’s president Ahmed Reehan said that though the teacher had traveled to Omadhoo on the day of the incident, police had brought them back to Veymandoo later.
The Ministry of Education has yet to comment on the case.