Students’ fight in school compound caught on camera

One of the three beaten brothers was knocked down unconscious.

There was another person who agreed with the assailants that he would record the fight after using a video camera in order to circulate the tape in Dubai government and private schools with the intent to humiliate him. An ambulance took the injured boys to a hospital, where after a medical examination of the student, identified only as M.N.H., showed he was beaten up. He sustained bruises in the head, chest, left wrist, left joint and the knee. His brother K.N.H. also sustained lacerations and bruises in different parts of his body, the medical report said.

Despite the intervention of policemen and CID personnel, the injured students were taken to the hospital, the management of the school did not take action and decided to refer the matter to the educational zone concerned, preferring to remain tight-lipped on the assault which took place inside the school premises.

The videotape, which filmed the incident, had shown the negligence of the school’s management in addressing the issue, although the videotape was circulated among the students of the schools.

The guardian of the victimised students complained to the administration of the school. Instead of scolding the assailants, the administration of the school entered into bargain with the guardian of the students asking them to give up the case, but the latter refused to do so.

The administration of the school, thereafter, sent three letters to the guardians telling them that the three brothers were suspended from school till the problem is solved. The assailants were not blamed by the school management and continued in their classes. When the principal of the school was summoned by the administration of the zone, he refused to tell the names of the students who had beaten up their colleagues. The principal started offering excuses.

The administration of the zone blamed the principal for not notifying the administration of the zone about the incident despite the entry of the police inside the premises. He was also accused for allowing the use of mobile telephones inside the school, which resulted in the recording of the incident freely and in the absence of any control by the school management. He was also blamed for suspending the three victimised students.

The principal of the school had hysterically declined to talk about what happened inside the school’s compound and warned journalists with serious action if the incident was reported. Khaleej Times learnt from security sources that intensive investigations were being conducted into the incident.