India, Aug. 18 -- The Government of India issued the following news release:
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), India has taken suo motu cognizance of a media report that corporal punishment by a teacher fractured the shoulder of a third standard student at a government-run primary school in the Gautam Budh Nagar district, Uttar Pradesh. Reportedly, the boy did not disclose the incident but refused to go to school till after 3-4 days; his younger brother informed that he was injured due to beating with a stick by a teacher.
The Commission has observed that the contents of the news report, if true, raise serious issues of violation of human rights of the victim. Therefore, it has issued notices to the State Principal Secretary, D...