Shimla (PTI): Three teachers of a government school in Shimla, including the headmaster, have been booked for repeatedly assaulting an eight-year-old Dalit boy and placing a scorpion in his pants, police said on Sunday.

In a police complaint, the father of the boy -- a Class 1 student of Government Primary School at Khaddapani area in Rohru sub-division of Shimla district -- accused headmaster Devendra and teachers Babu Ram and Kritika Thakur of frequently physically assaulting his son for almost a year.

The complainant said that continuous beating caused the child's ear to bleed and damaged his eardrum. He also said the teachers took his son to the school's toilet, where they placed a scorpion in his pants.

Following the complaint, police have registered a case under Sections 127(2) (w

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