Girl stripped for forgetting homework
From correspondents in New Delhi
September 30, 2007 06:52pm
A SEVEN-year-old girl was made to strip naked by her teacher in a New Delhi school for not completing her homework.
She was made to strip completely naked and stand on a desk in her class on Friday while other students were asked to boo her.
"The teacher was arrested on a complaint by the parents but she has been released as it was a bailable offence," Rajan Bhagat said.
"This is barbaric," Shanta Sinha, head of the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights, said in a newspaper report. "No one has the right to outrage the modesty of a child."
The commission had issued a directive this year barring schools from calling students "stupid" or "mindless".
A government study backed by the United Nations Children's Fund said earlier this year two-thirds of children in India are physically abused, mostly at home and in schools.
From correspondents in New Delhi
September 30, 2007 06:52pm
A SEVEN-year-old girl was made to strip naked by her teacher in a New Delhi school for not completing her homework.
She was made to strip completely naked and stand on a desk in her class on Friday while other students were asked to boo her.
"This is barbaric," Shanta Sinha, head of the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights, said in a newspaper report. "No one has the right to outrage the modesty of a child."
The commission had issued a directive this year barring schools from calling students "stupid" or "mindless".
A government study backed by the United Nations Children's Fund said earlier this year two-thirds of children in India are physically abused, mostly at home and in schools.
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