SRINAGAR: Ten students of a residential school for girls in Kashmir capital Srinagar were sent to hospital after they fell ill due to food poisoning, police said on Tuesday.
A police statement said the students were shifted to the Shri Maharaja Hari Singh hospital where doctors treated them.
The students belong to Jamia-tul-Banaat school in Lalbazar area of Srinagar.
The police said nine of the patients have been discharged after receiving medical help while one of them is still admitted.
However the school administrator, Advocate Sheikh Ali Mohammed told FreePress that there was no food poisoning.
“Is the police statement a medical report? How can they say this? Even doctors there said it was not food poisoning as in that case all the girls would have had the same symptoms,” he said.
“But some of them had fever, others stomach problems…which is a normal thing.”
The school administrator even denied that any of his students was admitted in the hospital.
The police, however, said it has started investigation into the incident.
