| West Bengal teacher held for asking girl student to disrobe |
KOLKATA A high school teacher in West Bengal was arrested on Saturday after she allegedly made a Class 8 student take off her uniform to check if she was hiding Rs50 a classmate had accused her of stealing, police said.
“Rupali Dey, a teacher of Gopalnagar Giribala Uchcha Balika Vidyalaya, was arrested on Saturday morning. She has been booked for strip searching a Class 8 student,” a police officer said. The incident happened on Wednesday in Gopalnagar in North 24-Parganas district, some 75km from Kolkata.
The teacher allegedly strip searched the 13-year-old girl following an allegation that she was hiding Rs50. Following this, the girl’s parents lodged a police complaint on Friday.
In a similar incident, another Class 8 girl at Derokrishna Banitirtha Balika Vidyalaya in Haldia in East Midnapore was asked to disrobe and use her uniform to wipe out the water, which she had spilled on the floor. However, according to the girl, she had not spilled the water. She said her principal Sandhya Jana had ordered her to disrobe and had even beat her up.
The girl fell sick after coming home and her family lodged a complaint with the school’s managing committee on Friday.
Indo-Asian News Service
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