{"id":1644,"date":"2002-02-14T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-02-14T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2002\/02\/14\/2002-02-14-delhi-papers-continue-to-highlight-school-abuse\/"},"modified":"2002-02-14T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2002-02-14T12:00:00","slug":"2002-02-14-delhi-papers-continue-to-highlight-school-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2002\/02\/14\/2002-02-14-delhi-papers-continue-to-highlight-school-abuse\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi Papers Continue to Highlight School Abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Hindustan Times<\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>NEW DELHI, INDIA, January 30, 2002: This article in the Hindustan Times is the latest in a series of reports appearing in Delhi papers regarding corporal punishment in schools. When eight-year old Rachna could not properly read her Hindi lesson, her teacher at the Municipal Corporation of Delhi&#8217;s (MCD) primary school reprimanded her by repeatingly banging her forehead against a table. It was only when a patch of her hair came off in his hand did he stop. Rachna&#8217;s father, Brij Lal, filed a complaint at the school but when they ignored the incident, he filed his grievance at the NW Delhi police station. In the year 2000, the Delhi High Court ruled that, &#8220;Corporal punishment for schoolchildren was a violation of the right to equality, protection of life and personal liberty.&#8221; The teacher and the school principal have since written a letter of apology to Rachna&#8217;s family. This has done little to alleviate the girl&#8217;s fear of returning to school. Under investigation by the police, Shambhu, the teacher, could face six month&#8217;s imprisonment and a possible suspension.<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, INDIA, January 30, 2002: This article in the Hindustan Times is the latest in a,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}