School principal suspended, vice-principal and 14 other teachers transferred after a video emerged of a boy being thrashed by other schoolboys.
M I Khan reports from Patna.

Days after a video of two students beating up another student in Bihar went viral on social media, an arrest warrant was issued against the school principal for not taking timely action and informing the authorities about the incident.

The police are looking out for Ravi Ranjan, the now suspended principal of the Kendriya Vidyalaya in Bihar's Muzaffarpur district.

The arrest warrant was issued following a probe report submitted by Deputy Superintendent of Police Ashish Anand and Muzaffarpur City Superintendent of police Anand Kumar, Muzaffarpur Senior Superintendent of police Vivek Kumar said.

On Wednesday, October 19, the Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan suspended the principal and transferred the vice-principal along with 14 teachers in connection with the incident on a three-member probe team's recommendation.

The report found that the school authorities had tried to suppress the incident.

The incident came to light when the video of two sons of a murder accused mercilessly beating a Dalit student went viral on social media.

The purported video of the incident shows the two brothers -- one a Class 12 student, the other a Class 11 student -- pushing and thrashing the victim in the presence of other schoolmates on September 25.

The maternal grandfather of the victim, a Class 12 student, lodged a case at the scheduled caste and scheduled tribe police station in Muzaffarpur on Monday, October 17.

The complaintant stated the family is terrified because the father of the two brothers is a notorious criminal lodged in a jail outside the district in a murder case.

The two errant students have been sent to a remand home even as the police assured the victim's family security.

Union Minister of State for Human Resource Development Upendra Kushwaha, who hails from Bihar, directed KVS officials to initiate stern action against the accused students and school officials.