Delhi school director beaten to death by a angry mob after bodies of two pupils found in a ditch

The Director of a Delhi Public School (DPS) branch, Devendra Prasad, died on Sunday after being beaten black and blue by a mob following the recovery of the bodies of two students from a ditch in Bihar's Nalanda district. 

“Prasad succumbed during treatment at the Patna Medical College and Hospital (PMCH),” Nalanda’s Superintendent of Police (SP) Sidharth Mohan Jain said. 

“A post-mortem examination is being carried out on the body to ascertain the exact cause of his death,” he added. 

Residents of the village Nirpur, adjacent to district headquarters Biharsharif, went on a rampage shortly after the bodies of two boys were found.

Television footage showed that the director of the school, located near Nirpur village, was mercilessly beaten up with lathis by a mob which held him responsible for the deaths of two students from the prestigious school.

“Some in the crowd mercilessly beat up Prasad with lathis, while some of them kicked him as he lay on the ground with his face down,” the officer said. 

Local protesters torched two school vans after the bodies of two students were found near Nirpur

The badly battered DPS official was taken by a police team, led by the DSP (Law and Order) Sanjay Kumar, to Sadar hospital at Biharsharif where the attending doctors referred him to PMCH at Patna, the SP added. He said strict action will be taken against the guilty persons. 

An FIR was lodged against unidentified people responsible for the assault on the DPS official, Jain said. 

Earlier in the day, the bodies of two students aged around 7-8 years were recovered.

Charging the slain DPS official with being responsible for the death of the two local students, identified as Ravi Kumar and Sagar Kumar, the villagers attacked the school torching two rooms with LPG cylinders, besides a couple of vehicles. 

The mob also targeted some policemen who had arrived there to probe the death of two students and pelted stones on the cops, injuring six, including Nalanda police station in-charge Sunil Kumar, the SP said.