New Delhi: In a shocking case of corporal punishment in a Jamshedpur school, 6 girl students were brutally punished by a lady teacher, which resulted in them fainting. The 9th class students, who are now being treated at a hospital, were punished by the teacher for making too much noise during her absence. The angry teacher asked the students to do a 100 sit-ups. When they refused, she beat them...
11:11 AM, Jun 29, 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 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
It has been three and a half months since our CJ Omvati's daughter permanently lost vision in the left eye due to corporal punishment. ...
06:25 PM, Oct 15, 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
Seven-year-old Jhunjhunu lost vision in her left eye after her teacher in school allegedly thrashed her for not doing her homework. ...
02:17 PM, 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
Bangkok: Secretly recorded cell phone footage has exposed a teacher at a Catholic boarding school in northeastern Thailand who whacked dozens of students on the buttocks with a cane wrapped with electrical wire. Art teacher Somchai Limthanmaporn was fired after he was exposed hitting at least 40 students, according to Nongkran Prathumtri, an administrator at St. Mary's School in the northeastern province of Nakhon Ratchasima. She said the school would...
11:04 AM, Aug 31, 2010
Warangal: In Warangal district of Andhra Pradesh, 11 children of a government primary school have sustained burns after their teacher punished them by placing burning firewood on their hands, arms and thighs. ...
11:07 AM, Aug 11, 2010
A government school teacher allegedly beat up 16 students in Barnala, Punjab because he suspected them of bunking classes. ...
01:00 PM, Jul 31, 2010
Another Kolkata school faces allegations of corporal punishment. ...
11:04 PM, Jul 17, 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
Even as the corporal punishment debate refuses to die down there has been another incident, this time in Delhi. ...
09:00 AM, Jul 09, 2010
Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee made a statement in the Assembly on Rouvanjit Rawla's alleged suicide. ...
01:19 PM, Jul 01, 2010
NCPCR team says harassment and humiliation of Rouvanjit Rawla due to corporal punishment led to his death. ...
10:21 PM, Jun 22, 2010
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