Mystery shrouds over head injury to student at Veda Pathashala in Telangana’s Basar

Aggidi Lohith Kumar, a student at a Basar Veda Pathashala, suffered a severe head injury on March 20, 2025. The cause remains unclear, with a baboon attack suspected but unconfirmed

Nirmal: Mystery shrouds the serious head injury sustained by a student at a private Veda Pathashala in temple town Basar a few weeks ago.

Aggidi Lohith Kumar from Tupran in Medak district received a grievous head injury allegedly caused by a sharp tool on March 20. He slipped into coma while undergoing treatment at a private hospital in Bhainsa.

He was then shifted to another private hospital in Hyderabad. He is said to have recovered mentally but is struggling to recount as to how he sustained injuries.

Based on a complaint received from Ashok, an uncle of Lohith, police registered a case against school authorities including Veda Vidyanandagiri Swamy and a woman. Investigating officials were clueless as to why Lohith got injured.

They said the boy was unable to divulge more details of the incident as he was still recuperating. He was apparently shocked and could not recollect what happened that day, an investigating official stated.

His classmates told police that Lohith might have been injured when a baboon attacked him while taking bath at the school. However, another student Manikanta, who noticed Lohit for the first time after the incident, was accidentally electrocuted while switching on an electric motor at the school on the banks of Godavari river at Basar on April 4, raising eyebrows of many. Investigating officials said Manikanta’s was an accidental death due to electric shock.

They ruled out any conspiracy behind his death. But locals said Manikanta was the only eyewitness for Lohith’s injury. He was also Lohith’s best friend. His death resulted in facts behind the boy’s injury becoming vague, they opined.

Locals recalled that two women were found dead in suspicious circumstances at the school in the past, but the causes of their deaths were not known yet. Similarly, police were unable to unravel the mystery behind the injury of Lohith.