THE Education Ministry is leaving it to the authorities to take further action on the case of a year five pupil who became a person with disabilities after suffering from a heatstroke, said Fadhlina Sidek.
The education minister said the ministry has conducted an inquiry into the case but she was leaving the matter to the police authorities to take further action.
"For this case, we are leaving it to the authorities and the investigation is being conducted by the police.
"There is already a police report, and we will leave it to them to take further action.
"As for the Education Ministry level, we have carried out the investigation according to established protocols and procedures,” she was quoted as saying in a New Straits Times report today.
Fadhlina, who is also a Nibong Tebal member of Parliament, said the state education department had also conducted an investigation on the case based on standard operating procedures.
On April 30, the student from a school in Ampang was punished by his teacher along with three other students. They were made to stand under the hot sun, a punishment prohibited by the Education Ministry.
The three other boys were let off their punishment early, but not this boy.
He remains unnamed as he is underaged.
Last Wednesday, the family alleged that the authorities are trying to evade the main issue, which is the punishment meted out by the teacher that left their son in his current condition.
Instead of focusing on how the boy was punished and taking action against the culprit, they said the police were trying to establish if the boy was disabled before the incident.
In the mother’s police report on the case, she said her son was made to stand under the sun from 10am to12.50 pm, about three hours.
On 25 May, Ampang Jaya police chief Mohd Azam Ismail said that the investigation had revealed that the suspect, a male teacher, 37, had punished the boy and three others for “10 minutes”.
He said police had completed the investigation into the mother’s allegation and that the investigation paper had been referred to the public prosecutor’s office for further action. – June 9, 2024.
