Rouvan Suicide Case

• 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...

• 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...

• 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. ...