Dua pelajar dakwa dipukul guru hingga cedera

Dua pelajar Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Dato' Haji Talib Karim di Alor Gajah mendakwa dipukul seorang guru lelaki di dalam kelas tanpa alasan munasabah sehingga cedera di mata dan kepala.

Pelajar tersebut, Izzul Fahmi Zainal, 15, dipercayai mengalami bengkak di bahagian mata kanan serta penglihatannya kabur manakala Nur Najwa Najihah Mohd Shah, 13, mendakwa mengalami sakit kepala akibat dipukul di kepala.

Zurina Ibrahim, 40, berkata dalam kejadian pada 9.30 pagi Sabtu lepas, guru terbabit bertindak memukul kepala anaknya, Izzul Fahmi menggunakan tangan beberapa kali sebelum sekali lagi kepalanya dipukul menggunakan buku teks.

"Saya tidak dimaklumkan perkara itu oleh anak saya kerana dia terus tidur sebaik pulang dari sekolah ganti namun dimaklumkan mengenai kejadian itu dari ibu seorang lagi pelajar perempuan yang turut dipukul cikgu sama," katanya ketika ditemui di rumahnya di Kampung Jelatang di sini.

Katanya, dia kemudian mengejutkan anak lelakinya dari tidur dan terkejut apabila melihat mata kanan Izzul Fahmi merah dan bengkak sebelum dimaklumkan dipukul guru di dalam kelas.

Sementara itu, Izzul Fahmi berkata sebelum kejadian dia sedang berjalan di luar kelas Nur Najwa Najihah sebelum dipanggil dan dimarahi guru tersebut kerana melihatnya berbaring di atas pentas di Dataran Keris di sini ketika keluar bersiar-siar bersama Nur Najwa Najihah dan dua lagi rakan pada 1 Sept lepas.

Dakwa pelajar tingkatan tiga itu, guru terbabit turut memberi amaran akan memukulnya dan rakan sekiranya melihat mereka di dataran tersebut pada masa hadapan selain tidak gentar sekiranya tindakan itu diadukan kepada keluarga.

Selepas kejadian itu, Nur Najwa Najihah mendakwa dia diarah berdiri dan duduk di kerusi guru berulang kali sebelum kepala dipukul dua kali dengan buku teks selain dihambur kata-kata kesat ketika guru terbabit masuk ke kelasnya.

Ibunya, Norhayati Md Yusof, 44, berkata tindakan guru tersebut menyebabkan anaknya itu trauma dan malu ke sekolah serta sering mengadu sakit kepala.

"Saya tidak kisah sekiranya mereka dipukul kerana melanggar disiplin sekolah tetapi tindakan guru itu hanya kerana dia ternampak Najwa dan kakaknya bersama dua lagi rakan lelaki duduk di pentas di Dataran Keris," katanya.

Beliau turut melahirkan rasa tidak puas hati kerana hukuman tersebut diambil seminggu selepas kejadian menggunakan cara yang tidak beretika.

Ibu bapa kedua-dua pelajar berkenaan kemudian membuat laporan polis di Ibu Pejabat Polis Daerah Alor Gajah, semalam.

Sementara itu, Ketua Polis Daerah Alor Gajah Supt Umar Ali Saifuddin Shaharudin mengesahkan telah menerima laporan berhubung kejadian itu dan siasatan sedang dijalankan.

Pengarah Pelajaran Melaka Kasim Mohamad pula berkata pihaknya belum menerima laporan lisan mahupun bertulis dari Pengetua sekolah tersebut dan siasatan hanya akan dijalankan selepas menerima laporan berkenaan.

- BERNAMA 

Apple unveils two new iPhones for world market - iPhone 5S, iPhone 5C

Apple on Tuesday unveiled two new iPhones, fielding a slick new top-end model along with one aimed at budget-conscious smartphone shoppers around the world.

"The business has become so large that this year we are going to replace the iPhone 5 and we are going to replace it with two new designs," Apple chief Tim Cook announced at the company's Silicon Valley headquarters.

Apple will begin taking orders on Friday, and on September 20 the two devices will go on sale in the United States, Australia, Britain, China, France, Germany, Japan and Singapore.

The iPhone 5C is part of Apple's bid to counter the flood of low-cost smartphones from rivals, most of which use the Google Android operating system.

Apple designer Jony Ive said that despite the low cost, the polycarbonate iPhone 5C with a steel frame "is beautiful."

"We took the same fanatical care with how the iPhone 5C feels in your hand," Ive said.

The iPhone 5C with 16 gigabytes of memory will sell for as low as $99 with a US carrier contract -- half the cost of earlier iPhone base models.

Analysts were keenly focused on the promise of an iPhone 5C to win over buyers in China and other developing markets.

"The 5C a no-compromise device," Gartner analyst Van Baker told AFP after trying out Apple's new phones. "It is just in a plastic case instead of a metal case, and they basically reduce the price by the cost of materials."

Baker estimated the price cut allowed by lower-cost materials at around $100. He noted that the "open question" was whether iPhone 5C would be priced attractively for emerging markets at what could turn out to be a $550 price tag without subsidies from telecom service providers.

The top-line iPhone 5S, which starts at $199 with a contract for US buyers, "is the most forward thinking phone we have ever created," said Apple vice president Phil Schiller.

"It is the gold standard in smartphones."

Schiller said the 5S model includes a speedier chip which brings up the computing power from 32 to 64 bits.

"It has over a billion transistors in it," he said, adding that the device will be "about twice as fast in graphics and computing power and about 40 times faster than the original iPhone."

The 5S will also have improved battery life, with some 10 hours of talk time, or 40 hours of music listening, Schiller added.

Apple introduced a fingerprint sensor for the iPhone 5S, as a new security measure in place of passwords.

"You can just press the home button to unlock your phone," Schiller said. "You can use it to authenticate iTunes purchases."

Schiller added: "We have so much of our personal data on these devices, and they are with us almost everyplace we go, so we have to protect them."

Reticle Research principle analyst Ross Rubin described Touch ID as a "show stealer" that addresses "a necessary annoyance that many consumers have to deal with many times a day."

Apple also broadened its color palette, announcing the low-cost phone in blue, white, pink, yellow and green, and the top-line model in silver, gold and a new "space gray."

Apple said its iOS 7 software will debut September 18. It includes a free iTunes Radio Service featuring more than 200 stations "and an incredible catalog of music from the iTunes Store," Apple announced earlier this year.

The two new handsets keep the four-inch screen of current iPhones, despite some speculation Apple would boost the size to compete with larger phones from rivals like Samsung.

The smartphone market is now dominated by Android devices, with roughly three-fourths of all handsets, but a forecast by research firm IDC suggested Apple will increase its share this year to 17.9 percent from 16.9 percent.

- AFP