Three days after a category 11 pupil of Captain Manoj Kumar Pandey UP Sainik School right here was discovered useless within the school’s swimming pool, the school administration on Monday sacked four of its workers members, three of them contractual, and suspended one till the investigation into the case was accomplished.
These sacked are swimming coach Satya Chauhan, lifeguard Brijesh Sharma, gatekeeper Ram Pal and college students’ support Balram Pandey. The school administration suspended home matron Rajeev Kumar. The motion got here after divisional commissioner Roshan Jacob, in a letter to school principal Colonel Rajesh Raghav, sought an evidence from him concerning the incident.
“For those who fail to current an evidence inside 7 days as to why an investigation shouldn’t be launched towards you, we can have no selection however to imagine that you’re knowingly refusing to touch upon the matter,” the letter reads.
Jacob stated the incident and the delay in response from the school confirmed a “lack of motion, procrastination and negligence” on the a part of the principal. The school administration additionally blacklisted the agency—M/s Commonplace Multitech Swimming Pool Water Therapy—from which the sacked workers was recruited.
The household of the deceased Om Budholiya, who was discovered useless within the school’s swimming pool on September 8, had levelled allegations of negligence towards the school workers and the administration. The boy hailed from Orai.