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Two teachers of Sherwood College in Uttarakhand have been sentenced to a year in jail after being found wanting in the discharge of their duties during an excursion in which two students were killed after a tractor-trolley they were travelling in overturned, an official said.
A group of 42 students had gone on an excursion to Sitawani in Nainital district in 2010. They were accompanied by two teachers — Ashish Dwivedi and Rohit Jalaal. The children were driven in a tractor trolley which overturned, killing two students and injuring seven others.
The parents of the two students — Anmol Bhatt (14) of Haldwani and Ibrahim Ansari (14) of Kanpur — had filed a case against the tractor’s driver, Anand, and the two teachers.
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Judicial Magistrate Manju Devi agreed with the prosecution that the teachers were callous and held them and the driver guilty, the official said.
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