An eight girl went into coma and didn’t regain consciousness after her lady yoga teacher allegedly slapped her so ahrd that she lost her balance and rammed her head against a wall. Iftesham Chowdhury, student of class II ,Vidya Bharati School in Mominpur, died at the Calcutta Medical Reaserchinstitute(CMRI).
Iftesham, a niece of breakway CPM leader Saifuddin Chowdhury, complained of headache after lunch break and lost consciousness soon after. When principal Anjana Mallick enquired whether she had been ill since coming to the school, her class mate said their teacher Anita Das slapped her during previous class.
Ifteshman’s father Mansoor Rahaman filed complaint against Anita Das with Ekhbalpur police station after speakeing his daughter friends. The police registered a case but hadn’t arrested the teacher till the last night..
“We first need to speak the students, teachersand parents.Only after that we consider charging Anita with culpable of homicide (not amounting to murder).” Deputy police commissioner Anand Kumar said.
Principal told “Anita Das told me that Iftesham was restive in class and not listening to her . So she slapped her in the face but not so hard. It was fact that Das and school coordinator Chandana Ghosh who took her to hospital.”
The yoga teacher Anita wasn unavailable for comments. Student’s father though tell “ My girl was hale and hearty when she went to school.” Elether brother Saifuddin said it was a shame that a school girl lost her life because of an incident involving a lady teacher.
“There are child protection laws in the country and an incident such as this calls for exemplary punishment.” He added.
source: THE TELEGRAPH 29 nov, 2008
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The female Principal has to swallow her own spits when she and another member of school managing committee(Swapan Das) went to house of Anita Das, found it was locked. Later Mr. Das told “Several attempt over past two days to contact yoga teacher have proved furtile. We left a letter at her house saying she would have to surrender by Monday. If she does not, we will serve her a termination letter.”
“Corporal punishment is banned. It is cleared that Anita violated the law.” Principal said.
Estranged father of the girl during burial said ”The female took my daughter’s life, but police slapped a soft charge on her. They should have started a murder case against her. The charge slapped against Anita is bailable and punishable with a maximum 2 yrs only!!
Day by day cruelty of female teachers increase in west bengal. Recently in a rural school, the girls and boys of whole class were being kneel downed by headmistress.Their only crime not to bring books which are too costly for them. The teachers beat the small children in face, tugged their hair mercilessly.
