Teacher Torture

A 33-year-old teacher from Thane was booked for allegedly torturing and injuring her 11-year-old female domestic help, originally from Delhi, police said on Wednesday.

The girl's school teacher saw the injury marks on her body, and called the police. The victim child told the police that she lives with her aunt in RK Puram, and studies in the first grade.

A Dalit man, who used to work as the manager of the mid-day meal scheme at a primary school near Vadnagar town, allegedly committed suicide Wednesday after reportedly being tortured by three school teachers, police said.

A 14-year-old student in Pakistan's Sindh province has become paralysed, after being allegedly strangulated by a teacher four months ago, a media report said today.

After a Dalit teen described the brutality with which he was assaulted by classmates and the unwillingness of his teachers to intervene, the central government has punished top members of the school's staff.

Two teachers at a madrasa in Bambepur village of Haryana's Yamunanagar district have been charged of physically torturing students.

A family in Kolkata has been torn asunder. The mother has gone away to her maternal home in Shillong, the father has fled his home because it is full of memories of his 17 year old daughter who has just died. Two weeks ago, she jumped off a high-rise, because, her parents believe, her school principal and two teachers mentally tortured her.

A priest in an ultra-conservative Catholic sect has been charged with rape and torture for acts allegedly committed during exorcisms involving three schoolteachers.

In October, the story of a 15-year-old girl from Jharkhand, who was rescued by an NGO from South Delhi's Vasant Kunj area, beaten, abused and traumatised by her employer shocked the city. The employer, Vandana Dhir, a senior executive with a multi-national company, was arrested and the girl sent to hospital with torture marks all over her.

A man was arrested from Abhinav Bidanasi area under Markat Nagar police station of Cuttack city yesterday for allegedly beating and torturing his wife, who works as a teacher in a Government school.

The headmaster of a panchayat school in Tukkachi village has been suspended for allegedly sexually torturing a woman teacher, who later tried to commit suicide by consuming poison, police said.

An 11-year-old, lies on his back on a hospital bed in Rajouri, Jammu and Kashmir, staring at the ceiling. His small feet are swathed in bandages. He has reportedly told the police that his teachers at a private madrassa pressed a hot iron against them to punish him for not committing his lessons to memory.

A police gallantry award given to Chhattisgarh police officer Ankit Garg on the Republic Day for anti-Naxal operations has human rights activists up in arms. The reason: Mr Garg has been named as an accused of violent sexual torture by Soni Sori, the teacher accused of being a Maoist courier and currently in a Raipur jail.

The Supreme Court is expected to pass orders on Chhattisgarh tribal teacher and activist Soni Sodi's petition of alleging torture against the Chhattisgarh Police. Sodi has been jailed on charges of being a Naxal. She claims she has been falsely implicated in a number of cases linking her to Naxal activities.

A teacher was arrested in Jharkhand's East Singhbhum district on Saturday, on charge of tying his domestic help with chains and physically torturing the man.

A 33-year-old teacher from Thane was booked for allegedly torturing and injuring her 11-year-old female domestic help, originally from Delhi, police said on Wednesday.

The girl's school teacher saw the injury marks on her body, and called the police. The victim child told the police that she lives with her aunt in RK Puram, and studies in the first grade.

A Dalit man, who used to work as the manager of the mid-day meal scheme at a primary school near Vadnagar town, allegedly committed suicide Wednesday after reportedly being tortured by three school teachers, police said.

A 14-year-old student in Pakistan's Sindh province has become paralysed, after being allegedly strangulated by a teacher four months ago, a media report said today.

After a Dalit teen described the brutality with which he was assaulted by classmates and the unwillingness of his teachers to intervene, the central government has punished top members of the school's staff.

Two teachers at a madrasa in Bambepur village of Haryana's Yamunanagar district have been charged of physically torturing students.

A family in Kolkata has been torn asunder. The mother has gone away to her maternal home in Shillong, the father has fled his home because it is full of memories of his 17 year old daughter who has just died. Two weeks ago, she jumped off a high-rise, because, her parents believe, her school principal and two teachers mentally tortured her.

A priest in an ultra-conservative Catholic sect has been charged with rape and torture for acts allegedly committed during exorcisms involving three schoolteachers.

In October, the story of a 15-year-old girl from Jharkhand, who was rescued by an NGO from South Delhi's Vasant Kunj area, beaten, abused and traumatised by her employer shocked the city. The employer, Vandana Dhir, a senior executive with a multi-national company, was arrested and the girl sent to hospital with torture marks all over her.

A man was arrested from Abhinav Bidanasi area under Markat Nagar police station of Cuttack city yesterday for allegedly beating and torturing his wife, who works as a teacher in a Government school.

The headmaster of a panchayat school in Tukkachi village has been suspended for allegedly sexually torturing a woman teacher, who later tried to commit suicide by consuming poison, police said.

An 11-year-old, lies on his back on a hospital bed in Rajouri, Jammu and Kashmir, staring at the ceiling. His small feet are swathed in bandages. He has reportedly told the police that his teachers at a private madrassa pressed a hot iron against them to punish him for not committing his lessons to memory.

A police gallantry award given to Chhattisgarh police officer Ankit Garg on the Republic Day for anti-Naxal operations has human rights activists up in arms. The reason: Mr Garg has been named as an accused of violent sexual torture by Soni Sori, the teacher accused of being a Maoist courier and currently in a Raipur jail.

The Supreme Court is expected to pass orders on Chhattisgarh tribal teacher and activist Soni Sodi's petition of alleging torture against the Chhattisgarh Police. Sodi has been jailed on charges of being a Naxal. She claims she has been falsely implicated in a number of cases linking her to Naxal activities.

A teacher was arrested in Jharkhand's East Singhbhum district on Saturday, on charge of tying his domestic help with chains and physically torturing the man.