Kolkata: Kolkata's La Martiniere School principal Sunirmal Chakraborty and three teachers on Friday were cleared of all charges in the Rouvanjit Rawla suicide case. In 2010, the teenaged boy had committed suicide after he was allegedly caned and humiliated in the school.
Additional District Session judge passed an order saying that no prima facie case can be made out against the principal and the teachers. "There is no direct cause of abetment, no evidence of torture and cruelty, no ground to proceed against the accused for offences levelled against them by prosecution," said the judge.
The order was on framing of charges. The police had charged them under the Juvenile Justice Act and IPC 323.
The Junior Magistrate had included the charge of abetment of suicide - Section 305 of IPC in November 2010....
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05:30 PM, Sep 21, 2012
Kolkata: A Fast Track Court on Saturday rejected the petition of the father of Rouvanjit Rawla, who committed suicide after allegedly being caned by a teacher of the La Martiniere school in Kolkata last year, seeking change of the public prosecutor in the case questioning his neutrality. RN Malik, judge of the Fast Track 3rd Court at Bankshall Court, rejected the petition filed by Ajay Rawla seeking change of public...
03:33 PM, Mar 05, 2011
Kolkata: The hearing in the Rouvanjit Rawla suicide case has been deferred till Friday. The principal and three teachers of La Martiniere - accused in the case - were scheduled to be produced in a Kolkata court on Thursday. Principal Sunirmal Chakravarti and the three teachers have been charged under Sec 305 of the IPC for abetment to suicide, as per which they can be punished with either death or...
11:01 AM, Feb 03, 2011
Kolkata: The Chief Sessions Judge of Kolkata upheld the lower court order to include abetment to suicide charge against school Principal Sunirmal Chakraborty and three accused teachers of La Martiniere for Boys School in Kolkata. It has been a painful wait for Ajay Rawla fighting the long battle for justice for his 13-year-old son Rouvanjit who committed suicide in February last year after allegedly being caned and humiliated in his...
03:14 PM, Jan 31, 2011
Kolkata: A sessions court in Kolkata adjourned the Rouvanjit Rawla case on Friday, till January 31. The court concluded the hearing of the petition moved by La Martiniere Principal Sunirmal Chakravarthi and three other teachers of the school, charged with abetment to Rawla's suicide. Speaking to CNN-IBN, Rouvanjit's father Ajay Rawla said, "Facts speak for themselves. While we have been focusing on corporal punishment, this isn't the only case. I...
11:33 AM, Jan 28, 2011
Kolkata: The principal and three teachers of La Martiniere for Boys school, facing charges of abetment to suicide of 13-year-old student Rouvanjit Rawla, on Friday moved a higher court against the magisterial order for their trial. Claiming that the metropolitan judge of Bankshall Court had no jurisdiction to reframe charges, the teachers sought quashing of his order before chief sessions court judge Dipak Saha Roy. On November 19, the magistrate...
07:19 PM, Dec 10, 2010
Kolkata: The principal and three teachers of La Martiniere for Boys School, who allegedly drove student Rouvanjit Rawla to commit suicide, on Wednesday challenged the order for their trial on charges of abetment to suicide of a child which carries a maximum sentence of death, in a higher court. Chief Judge, Sessions Court, Dipak Saha Roy admitted their revision application against an order of the 12th Metropolitan Judge of Bankshall...
06:01 PM, Dec 08, 2010
Kolkata: The ripples of the Rouvanjit Rawla suicide case has finally reached the Calcutta High Court, which has ordered the West Bengal government to carry out wide publicity against corporal punishment in schools. The court has asked the state government to step up its publicity in both print and visual media. It has also asked the government to specify its guidelines and to strict penal actions against erring teachers and...
12:29 PM, Nov 26, 2010
Zindagi live meets Rouvanjit Rawla's father Ajay Rawla who now seeks justice for his son's death. ...
06:34 PM, Nov 21, 2010
Zindagi live meets Rouvanjit Rawla's father Ajay Rawla who now seeks justice for his son's death. ...
06:34 PM, Nov 21, 2010
Kolkata : A city court of Kolkata today ordered that the principal and three teachers of the prestigious La Martiniere School in Kolkata be tried for driving Rouvanjit Rawla to commit suicide. An inquiry was started by the National Commission for the Protection of Child Rights. The enquiry found principal Sunirmal Chakravarti and three teachers guilty. The court has reframed charges after the police made them an accused of a...
06:25 PM, Nov 19, 2010
Kolkata: The La Martiniere School Governing Council, on Tuesday supported the principal and three other teachers, who were booked, in the Rouvanjit suicide case. The school Governing Council decided that no action will be taken against them for now. "There is no question of any change in their position. And they will continue to function and discharge their duties in the capacity in which they have been doing so far,"...
05:24 PM, Oct 05, 2010
The principal and 4 other teachers of the La Martiniere school, who were arrested in the Rouvanjit Rawla suicide case, have been granted bail by a city court on Monday. ...
11:12 PM, Oct 04, 2010
Rawla says the arrests of the principal and three other teachers have brought back his faith in the system. ...
11:03 AM, Oct 04, 2010
Kolkata: Rouvanjit Rawla's father Ajay Rawla says the arrests of the principal and four other teachers of the La Martiniere school here have brought back his faith in the system as he had almost given up hope with no action against the school authorities following the suicide of his son seven months ago. Rouvanjit's father Ajay Rawla said: "My first reaction is disbelief, because I had nearly given up hope....
10:30 AM, Oct 04, 2010
Seven months after the suicide, the principal and three other teachers of the Kolkata school are arrested. ...
09:37 AM, Oct 04, 2010
Kolkata: The principal and four other teachers of the La Martiniere school, who were arrested in the Rouvanjit Rawla suicide case, have been granted bail by a city court here on Monday on the bail bond of RS. 500 each. The principal and the four teachers were arrested on charges of assaulting Rouvanjit Rawla, who committed suicide in February this year, and have been charged with causing hurt and criminal...
08:35 AM, Oct 04, 2010
The school says that NCPCR issued the directions without reason in the garb of the recommendation. ...
02:28 PM, Jul 31, 2010
The decision has been taken over the suicide case of Class eight student Rouvanjit Rawla. ...
06:47 PM, Jul 19, 2010
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Two more shocking incidents of violence have been reported from two schools in Kolkata. ...
09:45 AM, Jul 17, 2010
