Man beats up son’s tutor, arrested

Kolkata: A man was arrested by the police for allegedly beating his son’s private tutor in Salt Lake. Swapan Kumar Bej, the accused, hit the private tutor, Surajit Das, on his head with a chair at the latter’s residence. Mr Das suffered injuries and underwent treatment at a hospital.

He later lodged a complaint with Bidhannagar South police station against Mr Bej leading to his arrest.

Mr Bej is a resident of Laboni while Mr Das lives in AA Block in Salt Lake. Mr Das, who earlier worked at an IT firm, now teaches computer at home earning Rs 4,000 per student per month.

Mr Bej’s son Subhayan, who is a student of computer science in Techno India, enrolled himself for private tuition from Mr Das. During enrolment, Mr Bej requested Mr Das to consider a lesser amount as tuition fee. According to Mr Bej, it was decided that he would pay Rs 1,500 for four classes instead of Rs 4,000.

He even claimed that he paid Rs 1,000 as an advance to Mr Das. But after a few days Mr Das found Subhayan not paying much attention towards studies and called Mr Das. On Sunday morning, Mr Bej visited Mr Das’ residence and informed him that his son would not visit him for private tuition further. Mr Das then returned Rs 500 out of Rs 1,000 which was paid in advance. Mr Bej, however, demanded the entire amount of advance be returned which Mr Das refused. An altercation broke between them.

Mr Bej picked a chair and attacked Mr Das, preliminary investigation revealed. Mr Das will be produced at Bidhannagar court on Monday.