Four days after the parents of a class V student of Patha Bhavan in Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan, lodged a complaint that their daughter was forced to drink her urine as punishment for bedwetting, they turned down a request from the university on Wednesday to send their child back to the school.
A three-member team of the university led by Registrar Manimukut Mitra visited the family at their residence at Makrampur on the outskirts of Bolpur.
“My daughter has been tortured enough; she starts crying on hearing the name of Visva Bharati. After all this if I try to persuade her to go back to the school it will be a crime on my part,” Manoj Mistry, the student’s father, told The Hindu .
He said the representatives of the university who visited his residence did not apologise for the way their 10-year-old daughter had been treated at the university.
