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Suyash
Karangutkar.
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Suyashsince1998@gmail.com
Kolkata/Mumbai: As
the final stage of trial for the 16th December Gang rape case began
inside the Saket High Court, another case of cruelty popped up from Kolkata.
In this latest example of cruelty against females, an Eleven
year old school going girl took her last breathes as she dizzied down in her
school. The girl who was rushed to Apollo Hospital by the school management was
declared dead on arrival.
Ondrilla Das – an 11-year-old girl and a class 5 student was
ragged by her seniors eight days before her death. “The girl was asked to bring
100 rupees and when she did not get it the boys locked her in the school
bathroom,” said the Police officials investigating this case. The girl who was
rescued by a school sweeper five hours later went into trauma. Her parents took
her to a doctor who referred her to a psychiatrist.
The psychiatrist, her parents say, injected her some
sleeping dose which the eleven year old girl couldn’t bear and fell unconscious
while in school.
Soon after this incident came into limelight, angry
guardians barged inside Christ Church High School at Dum Dum in the outskirts
of the city. Angry protestors damaged the school property and vandalized the
principal’s cabin.
Principal Helen Sarkar who soon addressed the angry crowd
appealed the crowd to keep calm and assured of strict actions against the
seniors involved in the crime. When asked about her inactions, she said that
the girl did not complaint about any such crime. The girl’s parents have
rubbished the girl’s word.
The principal who resigned after the mounting pressure was
arrested by the local police on the charges of negligence. The principal is
currently in judicial custody.
West Bengal’s Education Minister Bratya Basu has called the
incident ‘unfortunate’ and has asked for preliminary reports while Chief
Minister Mamta Banerjee met the victim’s mother Rekha Das, consoled and assured
her that she would look into the case.
Commenting on the issue Ayan
Basu an Author told News-o-Holic that we need to go back to
the root cause of this entire problem first, bringing laws and forcing it on
others will increase the crime not reduce it.
According to a Supreme
Court judgement, every school must have an Anti-ragging Committee and an
Anti-Ragging Squad to deal with such cases.
Santanu Das, the
girl’s father told the Zee Media bureau that he has lost his daughter but at
least her death will help save many other girls from the menace of ragging.
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