This School in Pune has Bouncers for ‘Security’, They Punish Students Allege Parents

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Sumit Singh
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Pune, November 20, 2019: The Pune City Police has registered case against a teacher and a bouncer of an English medium school for allegedly cruelly punishing a 15-year-old student.

The student’s mother stated in her complaint to Swargate police station that her son was made to do 100 situps as punishment after he forgot to take Hindi workbook to school.

According to police, the incident took place at Mahaveer English Medium School and Junior College at Salisbury Park, around 11 am on November 18. The Hindi teacher sent him out of class and asked a bouncer to punish him. The punishment left the child in pain and trauma. After his parents lodged complaint with police, the boy was sent to Sassoon hospital for medical check-up. A medico-legal case (MLC) was made and the boy will be further examined by orthopaedic surgeon.

The school principal Alakananda Sengupta was quoted by a newspaper, saying that the bouncers have been deployed for security reasons and not for punishing students. “No student is made to do sit-ups more than 10-15 times. The concerned student has some health problem, which was not informed to us”, she told the newspaper.

Meanwhile, Swargate police station on Tuesday night registered FIR against the teacher and bouncer for offence under section 75 (punishment for cruelty to a child — whoever, having the actual charge of, or control over, a child, assaults, abandons, abuses, exposes or willfully neglects the child or causes or procures the child to be assaulted, abandoned, abused, exposed or neglected in a manner likely to cause such child unnecessary mental or physical suffering shall be punishable with an imprisonment for a term which may extend to three years, or with a fine of Rs 1 lakh or with both) of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015.