Shantiniketan school girl made to drink urine for bedwetting
July 8th, 2012 - 8:14 pm ICT by IANSKolkata, July 8 (IANS) 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 Sunday.
“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 IANS.
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.
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