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Rouvanjit suicide case: Principal, three teachers granted bail
The principal of La Martiniere School for boys and three other teachers were given bail by a Kolkata court today in connection with the suicide of 13-year-old Rouvanjit Rawla. The court will now frame charges against the four accused on February 17.All four have so far been charged with causing grievous hurt to Rouvanjit who committed suicide on Fe...
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Rouvan case: Principal can be charged with abetment of suicide
In Kolkata, a court has ruled that a principal and three teachers from the city's famous La Martiniere school can be charged with abetment of suicide in the case of Rouvanjit Rawla.In February 2010, 13-year-old Rouvanjit killed himself at his home after days of alleged physical and emotional abuse by his teachers. His principal, Sunirmal Chakrabort...
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La Martiniere Principal accused of abetment of Rouvan Rawla's suicide
A Kolkata court has decided that the principal who caned Rouvanjit Rawla at his school in Kolkata stands accused of driving the 13-year-old to suicide. Three other teachers have also been charged with abetment of suicide. Sunirmal Chakraborty had been charged with deliberately injuring the child, who killed himself in February, four days after Chak...
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Rouvan Rawla suicide: La Martiniere principal, teachers get bail
Seven months after 13-year-old La Martiniere student Rouvanjit Rawla committed suicide, after being caned, the school principal and three teachers were arrested on Monday and later given bail. The principal has been accused of severe physical thrashing and the other three teachers have been charged with criminal assault and slapping.The Rawlas alle...
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Rouvan suicide case: Buddhadeb steps in
West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya spoke on the floor of the state Assembly on Thursday about the steps taken by the state government in connection with the Rouvanjit Rawla case.Speaking in the Assembly, Buddhadeb said that a report has been submitted to the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights on the matter and added t...
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Rouvan suicide: New mystery over visitors to school
A person claiming to represent the Human Resources Development Ministry on Thursday visited La Martinere for Boys in Kolkata in connection with the suicide of a student who was caned by the principal but HRD Minister Kapil Sibal denied having authorised anybody to probe the death."I visited the school on a fact-finding mission. I spoke to the princ...
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Martiniere alumni defend school, say Rouvan was 'sensitive'
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...
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Rouvan suicide: School bans corporal punishment
Kolkata's La Martiniere School for Boys has denied that a student's suicide can be linked to his caning by the school's principal days before his death. Nevertheless, on Friday, the school's Board of Governors announced new rules for teachers. Corporal punishment has been banned, and "no child shall be subjected to physical punishment or mental har...
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Rouvan's suicide: Principal, school blamed by NCPCR
Did Rouvan Rawla, a 12-year-old student, kill himself because he was beaten and humiliated by his teachers? Rouvan was found hanging at his home on February 12. The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) is investigating Rouvan's school: La Martiniere Boys' School, one of the city's most famous educational institutions.In an int...
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La Martiniere principal: Didn't know corporal punishment was illegal
The story of 12-year-old Rouvan Rawla, who committed suicide after being caned, incensed both his home town, Kolkata, and parents everywhere.
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Just an apology for Kolkata student Rouvan's suicide?
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.
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Kolkata school responsible for student's suicide?
The investigation into a 13-year-old's suicide in Kolkata has allegedly established that the school he attended, the prestigious La Martiniere Boys' School , was responsible for humiliating and torturing him. In February, Rouvan Rawla was found hanging in his family home. The National Commission for the Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR...
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Case against top Kolkata school for student's suicide
A case has been filed against one of Kolkata's best-known schools, La Martiniere for Boys, accusing its principal and several teachers of abetting the suicide of a 13-year-old student.On February 12 this year, Rouvan Rawla, a Class VIII student, had committed suicide at his home after returning from school, where he had allegedly been humiliated, h...
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Rouvanjit suicide case: Principal, three teachers granted bail
The principal of La Martiniere School for boys and three other teachers were given bail by a Kolkata court today in connection with the suicide of 13-year-old Rouvanjit Rawla. The court will now frame charges against the four accused on February 17.All four have so far been charged with causing grievous hurt to Rouvanjit who committed suicide on Fe...
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Rouvan case: Principal can be charged with abetment of suicide
In Kolkata, a court has ruled that a principal and three teachers from the city's famous La Martiniere school can be charged with abetment of suicide in the case of Rouvanjit Rawla.In February 2010, 13-year-old Rouvanjit killed himself at his home after days of alleged physical and emotional abuse by his teachers. His principal, Sunirmal Chakrabort...
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La Martiniere Principal accused of abetment of Rouvan Rawla's suicide
A Kolkata court has decided that the principal who caned Rouvanjit Rawla at his school in Kolkata stands accused of driving the 13-year-old to suicide. Three other teachers have also been charged with abetment of suicide. Sunirmal Chakraborty had been charged with deliberately injuring the child, who killed himself in February, four days after Chak...
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Rouvan Rawla suicide: La Martiniere principal, teachers get bail
Seven months after 13-year-old La Martiniere student Rouvanjit Rawla committed suicide, after being caned, the school principal and three teachers were arrested on Monday and later given bail. The principal has been accused of severe physical thrashing and the other three teachers have been charged with criminal assault and slapping.The Rawlas alle...
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Rouvan suicide case: Buddhadeb steps in
West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya spoke on the floor of the state Assembly on Thursday about the steps taken by the state government in connection with the Rouvanjit Rawla case.Speaking in the Assembly, Buddhadeb said that a report has been submitted to the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights on the matter and added t...
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Rouvan suicide: New mystery over visitors to school
A person claiming to represent the Human Resources Development Ministry on Thursday visited La Martinere for Boys in Kolkata in connection with the suicide of a student who was caned by the principal but HRD Minister Kapil Sibal denied having authorised anybody to probe the death."I visited the school on a fact-finding mission. I spoke to the princ...
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Martiniere alumni defend school, say Rouvan was 'sensitive'
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...
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Rouvan suicide: School bans corporal punishment
Kolkata's La Martiniere School for Boys has denied that a student's suicide can be linked to his caning by the school's principal days before his death. Nevertheless, on Friday, the school's Board of Governors announced new rules for teachers. Corporal punishment has been banned, and "no child shall be subjected to physical punishment or mental har...
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Rouvan's suicide: Principal, school blamed by NCPCR
Did Rouvan Rawla, a 12-year-old student, kill himself because he was beaten and humiliated by his teachers? Rouvan was found hanging at his home on February 12. The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) is investigating Rouvan's school: La Martiniere Boys' School, one of the city's most famous educational institutions.In an int...
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La Martiniere principal: Didn't know corporal punishment was illegal
The story of 12-year-old Rouvan Rawla, who committed suicide after being caned, incensed both his home town, Kolkata, and parents everywhere.
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Just an apology for Kolkata student Rouvan's suicide?
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.
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Kolkata school responsible for student's suicide?
The investigation into a 13-year-old's suicide in Kolkata has allegedly established that the school he attended, the prestigious La Martiniere Boys' School , was responsible for humiliating and torturing him. In February, Rouvan Rawla was found hanging in his family home. The National Commission for the Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR...
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Case against top Kolkata school for student's suicide
A case has been filed against one of Kolkata's best-known schools, La Martiniere for Boys, accusing its principal and several teachers of abetting the suicide of a 13-year-old student.On February 12 this year, Rouvan Rawla, a Class VIII student, had committed suicide at his home after returning from school, where he had allegedly been humiliated, h...
