Kolkata Student Punished

A class 8 student of a private boarding school in West Bengal has died allegedly after he was beaten to death by his teacher late night on Monday. The 14-year-old's family says he was "punished" for meeting his father at the hostel gate without seeking permission.

Hot tea was allegedly poured on a class IV student as a punishment for being absent at a government-aided school in north Kolkata.

Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad mentioned the name of the medical student who died after being brutally gangraped by six men in Delhi while demanding death punishment for the perpetrators at a function in Kolkata today.

The Vice-Principal of Don Bosco School, in Bandel, West Bengal, has been arrested for allegedly assaulting a student of Class 4 so badly that he needed nine stitches on his head.

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 on Sunday.

A student of Class XII of a Kolkata school tried to commit suicide in school and left a note blaming his Hindi teacher for forcing him to take the drastic step. The teacher has been arrested and released on bail since. She had apparently repeatedly humiliated him in class, prompting him to take an overdose of sleeping pills in school.Mohammed Sajji...

Even as the dust is yet to settle over the suicide of La Martiniere student Rouvan Rawla, another Kolkata school, St James, has come under the scanner for corporal punishment. The father of a Class 8 student has filed a case against the principal and five teachers on charges of mentally and physically abusing his son. But the school says the studen...

Many former students of Kolkata's prestigious La Martiniere for Boys School have come out in its defence after the controversy created by a student's suicide after being caned. "Our teachers are one of the most caring", says one Facebook post while another says that "caning was an acceptable form of punishment" and problem lay with the boy being "t...

It needed a 12-year-old to commit suicide for the principal of La Martiniere school for boys to say that corporal punishment would never again be practiced in the school.

A class 8 student of a private boarding school in West Bengal has died allegedly after he was beaten to death by his teacher late night on Monday. The 14-year-old's family says he was "punished" for meeting his father at the hostel gate without seeking permission.

Hot tea was allegedly poured on a class IV student as a punishment for being absent at a government-aided school in north Kolkata.

Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad mentioned the name of the medical student who died after being brutally gangraped by six men in Delhi while demanding death punishment for the perpetrators at a function in Kolkata today.

The Vice-Principal of Don Bosco School, in Bandel, West Bengal, has been arrested for allegedly assaulting a student of Class 4 so badly that he needed nine stitches on his head.

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 on Sunday.

A student of Class XII of a Kolkata school tried to commit suicide in school and left a note blaming his Hindi teacher for forcing him to take the drastic step. The teacher has been arrested and released on bail since. She had apparently repeatedly humiliated him in class, prompting him to take an overdose of sleeping pills in school.Mohammed Sajji...

Even as the dust is yet to settle over the suicide of La Martiniere student Rouvan Rawla, another Kolkata school, St James, has come under the scanner for corporal punishment. The father of a Class 8 student has filed a case against the principal and five teachers on charges of mentally and physically abusing his son. But the school says the studen...

Many former students of Kolkata's prestigious La Martiniere for Boys School have come out in its defence after the controversy created by a student's suicide after being caned. "Our teachers are one of the most caring", says one Facebook post while another says that "caning was an acceptable form of punishment" and problem lay with the boy being "t...

It needed a 12-year-old to commit suicide for the principal of La Martiniere school for boys to say that corporal punishment would never again be practiced in the school.