Teacher convicted for dishonouring dignity of 12 year old boy, causing injury, criminal intimidation and use of criminal force
Source : India Times
It happened about a decade ago. A boy Rakesh was hauled up for not wearing the proper school trousers. He was then asked to stand outside the classroom as a punishment. Instead he joined a group of other boys to play in the school’s water tank.
All the other boys ran away when they saw the vice-principal but Rakesh could not find his clothes. He was taken naked to his office and beaten up. Rakesh felt the trauma of the incident and became withdrawn.
In the India Times, it was reported that the teacher was convicted by a court on Monday for parading a class VI student naked in front of the whole school for three hours, dishonouring the dignity of a person, causing injury, criminal intimidation and use of criminal force.
A teacher should know the extent of his authority. To do what he did, PC Gupta had gone beyond a certain point. He had also failed to understand the frailty of a human being. It was sheer cruelty to have done what he did to the boy.
But the quantum of the punishment: what would a suitable sentence be?
