The Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion has re­ceived a pre­lim­i­nary re­port in­to the vi­o­lent in­ci­dent in­volv­ing stu­dents of Ch­agua­nas South Sec­ondary School, in which a stu­dent was beat­en and re­port­ed­ly knocked un­con­scious by a group of boys ear­li­er this week in Ch­agua­nas.

Re­spond­ing to ques­tions in Par­lia­ment yes­ter­day, Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter Dr Michael Dowlath said the school has al­ready en­gaged law en­force­ment au­thor­i­ties and ini­ti­at­ed dis­ci­pli­nary pro­ceed­ings against the stu­dents in­volved.

Dowlath in­di­cat­ed that the mat­ter is now be­fore the po­lice.