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Petition to book teacher for culpable homicide

Staff Reporter

Court notice to Police, MCD in Shanno case

Photograph of Shanno on her school ID card

NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court on Monday issued notices to the Centre, the Delhi Government, the Delhi police and the Municipal Corporation of Delhi on a petition seeking booking of the teacher who allegedly meted out corporal punishment to young Shanno Khan last month for culpable homicide not amounting to murder.

The little girl had died two days after she was punished at a government school here.

Justice G. S. Sistani issued the notices on the petition filed by Shanno’s father, I. U. Khan, seeking change of the charge from death due to negligence or rash act (304A) into culpable homicide not amounting to murder (304) of the Indian Penal Code.

The city police registered a case against the teacher last month under Section 304 immediately after the death of the girl.

The petitioner also urged the Court to order the investigating agency to register a case against the Principal of the school as well.

He further said that the teacher should be immediately arrested.

He also sought a compensation of Rs.1 crore from the civic body for the death of his daughter.

Apart from these pleas, the petitioner submitted that the Court should issue directions to the school authorities in the Capital to follow the Court’s guidelines issued in a judgment banning corporal punishment in Delhi in 2000.

Issuing the notices, Justice Sistani directed the respondents to file replies to the petition by May 14.

The girl studied in a school run by the civic body at Bawana in Outer Delhi.

The teacher had allegedly punished her because she was not able to recite the English alphabet.

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