A Dalit girl allegedly faced casteist slurs, was beaten up and thrown out of her school by a former village head here for not wearing uniform, police said on Tuesday. Manoj Kumar Dubey is neither an officer nor a teacher, yet he goes to school daily and misbehaves with teachers and children, police said.

On Monday, he questioned the girl, a Std VIII student of a government school, about not wearing the uniform, Chauri police station in-charge Girija Shankar Yadav said.