The Madras High Court has directed the Principal of Don Bosco Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Egmore, to take action on a complaint against a teacher for humiliating and abusing a student.
Justice P. Jothimani's direction followed a petition filed by Srinivas Rajan, father of R. Sudharsan studying in Standard IX .
Mr. Rajan stated that history teacher Tharmen Fernandez was creating a lot of problems and behaving badly with students.
On November 26, the teacher asked a student not to mingle with his son and other students, claiming they were watching porn along with another teacher.
He said that their parents were also bad.
“After hearing the same, my son started crying and vomiting. When I enquired, my son refused to give any proper reason,” he said. The boy revealed the reason only after repeated queries.
Evasive reply
Mr. Rajan said though he took up the matter with the management, no action was taken against the teacher. “The management is giving evasive reply.”
He stressed that the humiliation and abusive treatment of a child were not only in violation of the child's right to protection from violence but also counterproductive to their learning.
Mr. Rajan wanted a direction to Director of Matriculation Schools and Inspector to take action against the Principal for not acting on his complaint submitted on December 1.
Justice Jothimani said considering the fact and circumstances of the case, instead of ordering the Director of Matriculation Schools to take action against the Principal, the latter should be directed to take action on the complaint within four weeks.
