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A school headteacher and her husband have been charged with murder after 23 children died from eating pesticide-contaminated lunches in July at the school in eastern India, police said on Tuesday. The trial of Meena Devi and her husband was expected to begin soon, said police officer Varun Kumar Sinha. They were arrested and could face the death penalty if convicted. Investigating police officer Raj Kaushal said the headteacher's husband, politician Arjun Rai, stored pesticide at the school that was for use at his farm. The charge sheet filed in a court in Bihar state on Sunday said the chef cooked with it by mistake. Both denied the charges and told police there was no deliberate act on their part. The school's cooks have told authorities that the headteacher controlled the food for the government-provided free daily lunch. One of the cooks told police investigators that the cooking oil appeared different, but that the principal told her to use it anyway. The children who died were aged between five and 12. India's midday meal plan is one of the world's biggest school nutrition programmes. State governments have the freedom to decide on menus and timings of the meals, depending on local conditions and availability of food rations. It was first introduced in the 1960s in southern India, where it was seen as an incentive for poor parents to send their children to school. Although there have been complaints about the quality of the food served and the lack of hygiene, the incident in Bihar appeared to be unprecedented. |
警方周二稱，印度東部一所學(xué)校的校長及其丈夫雙雙被指控謀殺，今年7月該校23名學(xué)生因食用被農(nóng)藥污染的午餐不幸身亡。
調(diào)查警官拉杰?考沙爾說，校長的丈夫阿爾瓊?拉伊是一名政客，是他把自己農(nóng)場要用的農(nóng)藥儲放在了學(xué)校。上周日在比哈爾邦法庭提交的控告書上指出，廚師在給學(xué)生做午餐過程中誤用了此農(nóng)藥。 夫妻二人雙雙否認(rèn)這些指控，并告訴警方此事故絕非二人刻意為之。 然而，學(xué)校廚師已經(jīng)告訴當(dāng)局，對于政府發(fā)放的學(xué)生免費(fèi)午餐，校長曾一度限制其食物供應(yīng)量。其中一位還告訴偵查員說，校長曾硬要她使用明顯已變了色的食用油。
（譯者 陳理碩 編輯 丹妮） |
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