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The State authorities has considered the corporal punishment meted retired to a pupil by the main and teachers of St. Mary’s Public School astatine Sunkadakatte successful Bengaluru earnestly and directed the Department of School Education and Literacy (DSEL) to taxable a elaborate report.
Officer connected Special Duty to Chief Minister, K. Vaishnavi, has written a missive to the Principal Secretary of DSEL and asked them to analyse the facts of the case, instrumentality indispensable action, and taxable a compliance study with Global Positioning System (GPS) photographs.
Meanwhile, the Block Education Officer (BEO) of Bengaluru North Zone-1 visited the school, investigated the teachers, students and schoolhouse absorption and submitted a study to the Deputy Director of Public Instruction (DDPI).
The study states that it is evident that the main and teachers meted retired corporal punishment to the student, and much facts request to originate from the investigation.
In addition, regarding the school’s information measures, it was recovered that the instauration does not person a grill strategy connected each floor. “There is nary toilet strategy according to the fig of children. The schoolhouse does not person occurrence information certificates and gathering information standards. CCTV cameras person been installed successful the school. However, the CCTV footage retention has not been made for the past 1 month,” the study stated.
The Class 5 pupil of St. Mary’s Public School was allegedly assaulted by the main and teachers with a PVC tube and locked up successful a country for being absent for 2 days. The alleged incidental occurred connected October 14. Based connected the ailment by the student’s parents, an FIR was registered against the main and 2 teachers astatine Kamakshipalya constabulary station.
The Karnataka State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (KSCPCR) has besides registered a suo motu case.
