Subjecting child to corporal punishment to reform him can’t be part of education: Chhattisgarh High Court
The Hindu
Chhattisgarh High Court dismisses petition of teacher accused of abetting student suicide, condemns corporal punishment in schools.
It is cruel to subject a child to physical violence in school in the name of discipline or education, the Chhattisgarh High Court observed while dismissing a petition of a woman teacher accused of abetting the suicide of a student.
Subjecting the child to corporal punishment to reform him cannot be part of education, a division Bench of Chief Justice Ramesh Sinha and Justice Ravindra Kumar Agrawal said in its order on July 29.
"Imposition of corporal punishment on the child is not in consonance with his right to life guaranteed by Article 21 of the Constitution of India," it said.
Being small does not make a child a less human being than a grown up, the Court observed.
An FIR was lodged at Manipur police station in February against Sister Mercy alias Elizabeth Jose (43), a teacher of the Carmel Convent School in Ambikapur in Surguja District, for allegedly abetting the suicide of a Class VI girl student, the petitioner's lawyer Rajat Agrawal said.
Ms. Jose was arrested after the suicide note left behind by the student named her.
The High Court dismissed Ms. Jose's petition seeking to quash the FIR and the chargesheet in the abetment of suicide case.
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