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HRD Ministry submits report to PMO on Visva Bharati incident

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Press Trust of India New Delhi
Last Updated : Jan 24 2013 | 2:11 AM IST

The report is understood to have given a factual account of the incident that has triggered a public outcry and subsequent action initiated even as the hostel warden, who had allegedly forced the student to drink her own urine as a punishment for bed-wetting, has been arrested and placed under suspension.

The Prime Minister's Office had asked for a report from the HRD Minister about the the incident which occurred in a school under the Visva-Bharati University, a central varsity whose chancellor is the Prime Minister.

The incident sparked an outrage with National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) slapping a notice on West Bengal government asking it to probe the matter and submit a report in the next 10 days.

  

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First Published: Jul 10 2012 | 11:05 PM IST

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