Source: Principal Held for School Corporal Punishment Case<\/p>\n
KOLKATA, INDIA, October 5, 2010: In the first arrests of its kind in the country, police in Kolkata on Monday picked up the principal of the city’s famous 175-year-old La Martiniere for Boys School and three other teachers and booked them for handing out corporal punishment to a student, who later committed suicide. Sunirmal Chakravarthy and the three others were later freed on bail by a city court. Before making the arrests, investigators recorded the testimony of 82 witnesses, mostly students, teachers and parents.<\/p>\n
Corporal punishment was declared illegal by the Supreme Court in 2000 and the government has repeatedly said beating kids in schools had no place in a teaching system focussed on reducing stress and enhancing analytical skills.<\/p>\n
As the government has dithered on enacting a specific law, teachers have continued to lean on the cane to get the lessons through. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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