New Delhi: The HRD Ministry on Tuesday submitted a report to the PMO on the incident involving a fifth class girl student who was allegedly forced to drink her urine in a Visva Bharati school in Santiniketan.
The report is understood to have given a factual account of the incident that has triggered a public outcry and subsequent action initiated even as the hostel warden, who had allegedly forced the student to drink her own urine as a punishment for bed-wetting, has been arrested and placed under suspension.
The Prime Minister's Office had asked for a report from the HRD Minister about the incident which occurred in a school under the Visva-Bharati University, a central varsity whose chancellor is the Prime Minister.
The incident sparked an outrage with National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) slapping a notice on West Bengal government asking it to probe the matter and submit a report in the next 10 days....
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09:23 PM, Jul 10, 2012
Kolkata: The 10-year-old student who was allegedly made to drink her own urine in West Bengal's Visva-Bharati campus as a punishment for bedwetting says she does not want to continue in the same school. "I won't go back to the hostel. I want to study in another school. They may again ask me to do the same thing," said the Class 5 student of Patha Bhavan school. She said her...
05:58 PM, Jul 10, 2012
The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights has demanded an explanation over the Class 5 girl at the prestigious university of West Bengal, who was made to drink urine by her warden as punishment for bedwetting. ...
10:10 AM, Jul 09, 2012
Kolkata: The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights has demanded an explanation and sought a report over the Class 5 girl made to drink urine in West Bengal. The shocking incident of corporal punishment came from the university founded by Rabindranath Tagore, Visva-Bharati's Patha Bhavan. The class 5 student was allegedly forced to drink her own urine because she wet her bed. The girl's family has lodged a police...
07:55 AM, Jul 09, 2012
Kolkata: A four member fact-finding committee has been constituted to look into the allegation that a class five student of Visva-Bharati's Patha Bhavan school was forced to drink her urine as a punishment for bedwetting, a university official said Sunday. "We have received a complaint that a class 5 residential student of the Patha Bhavan was allegedly made to drink her urine as a punishment. A four member fact finding...
08:20 PM, Jul 08, 2012
