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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...

• 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...

• No action against principal after arrest, says La Martiniere

  A day after its principal was arrested and then granted bail, La Martiniere School in Kolkata has said he has not been suspended and will report to work as usual.Sunirmal Chakravarthi was arrested on Monday, along with three teachers, by the Kolkata police. He was accused of physical assault and using a sharp weapon to attack one of his students, 1...

• 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...

• School apologizes for SMS-ing dead student's father for fees

  On Wednesday morning, Ajay Rawla received an SMS from La Martiniere School asking him to ensure that his bank account can cover Rs 6225 required in the next few days as school fees for his son, Rouvan.    Except that 12-year-old Rouvan killed himself in February, four days after being caned by the La Martiniere principal. The case fo...

• La Martiniere school questions NCPCR investigation

  Kolkata's premier La Martiniere Boys School, under the scanner for the suicide by one of its students in February, allegedly after corporal punishment, has questioned the authenticity of the enquiry team sent by the National Commission for the Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) to probe the incident. After a board meeting today, the school said it ...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• Inquiry needed in Rouvan suicide case: Kapil Sibal

  Just days after the Principal of Kolkata's La Martiniere School admitted to caning Rouvan Rowla, days before his suicide, the HRD Minister Kapil Sibal has spoken out against corporal punishment. Sibal says that the school needs to be held responsible and a closer inquiry needs to be held in the case."Ultimately the school must take responsibility. ...

• La Martiniere principal admits to caning Rouvan

  The Principal of La Martiniere School for Boys spoke exclusively to NDTV's Monideepa Banerjee about the suicide of one of his students, Rouvan Rawla.  12-year-old Rouvan was found hanging at his house in Kolkata on February 12, four days after he was caned. Sunirmal Chakravarthi, the Principal, admits to caning

• 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...

• 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.

• 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.