The head of a Indian primary school could face the death penalty after police charged her and her husband with the murder of 23 young children who died after eating a free lunch contaminated with pesticides.
Police in Saran, Bihar, said today they had charged the couple with murder, attempted murder and conspiracy after completing a thorough investigation into the deaths.
The mass poisoning caused an outcry in India in July over what was suspected to be mismanagement in the popular Midday Meal Scheme which offers free lunches to poor children to encourage their families to send them to school. The scheme has been tainted by a number of corruption allegations and outbreaks of sickness.
But the head teacher of the small school in Bihar, one of India’s poorest states, went on the run soon after children started to become sick and was later accused of poisoning the children to damage the reputation of the state government. Full story...
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Police in Saran, Bihar, said today they had charged the couple with murder, attempted murder and conspiracy after completing a thorough investigation into the deaths.
The mass poisoning caused an outcry in India in July over what was suspected to be mismanagement in the popular Midday Meal Scheme which offers free lunches to poor children to encourage their families to send them to school. The scheme has been tainted by a number of corruption allegations and outbreaks of sickness.
But the head teacher of the small school in Bihar, one of India’s poorest states, went on the run soon after children started to become sick and was later accused of poisoning the children to damage the reputation of the state government. Full story...
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