SCHOOL GIRL WAS FORCED TO DRINK
HER URINE AS A
PUNISHMENT FOR BEDWETTING
A four member fact-finding committee has
been constituted to look into the allegation that a class five student of Visva-Bharati's Patha Bhavan
school was forced to drink her urine as a punishment for bedwetting, a
university official said Sunday8th July,2012.."We have received a
complaint that a class 5 residential student of the Patha Bhavan was allegedly
made to drink her urine as a punishment. A four member fact finding committee
headed by former dean of students welfare, Aruna Mukherjee has been set up to
look into the matter and submit its report to the vice chancellor of the
university," a university spokesman told The incident happened Saturday
evening when the warden of Karabi hostel, Uma Poddar, while on an inspection
found Punita guilty of bedwetting. She allegedly then made the girl drink her
urine as a punishment.After the girl told her mother about the ordeal, her
parents and several other people stormed the hostel premises and allegedly
manhandled Poddar.The girl's mother has also lodged a complaint against Poddar at the Bolpur police station in Birbhum district, some 160 km from state capital Kolkata.The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has taken cognisance of the matter and has sought a report from the university.
Prof. John Kurakar
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