Orissa HC notice to government on death of student after sit-ups
New Indian ExpressCUTTACK: The Orissa High Court has issued notices to the state government on a PIL seeking intervention for enforcing Section 17 of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009 in the schools, which mandates that no child shall be subjected to physical punishment or mental harassment. Advocate Prabir Kumar Das, a Bhubaneswar-based human rights activist, filed the PIL citing the death of Rudra Narayan Sethi, a student of Surya Narayan Nodal Upper Primary School in Orali on November 21, 2023. In his petition, Das also submitted that there were allegations of seven girl students of Bapujee High School in Patnagarh, who were made to do sit-ups for coming late to school on April 11, 2022. In another incident, a Class V girl student of Amodi Upper Primary School in Nuapada district was made to do 100 sit-ups for not being able to answer a question on August 31, 2023, Das alleged on the basis of media reports.
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