A Division Bench of Calcutta High Court comprising Chief Justice Mohit S Shah and Justice Kalyan Jyoti Sengupta on Friday asked advocate Tapas Bhanja to file an affidavit on Rouvanjit Rawla, a Class VIII student of La Martiniere who committed suicide after being allegedly beaten by his teachers. The court’s order comes after Bhanja filed a PIL alleging that despite the ban on corporal punishment through an order of Calcutta High Court in 2004, many schools still practise it. Bhanja pleaded that the state government has failed to stop corporal punishment in schools and it didn’t intervene into the affairs of La Martiniere after Rouvanjit committed suicide.

Cops’ recruitment: Govt to file report

The Calcutta High Court on Friday ordered the state government to file an affidavit on the current status of recruitment in the state police. Chief Justice Mohit S Shah and Justice Kalyan Jyoti Sengupta directed Home Secretary Samar Ghosh to file the affidavit by Monday after it heard a PIL alleging that a large number of posts in West Bengal Police has been lying vacant for a long time. Advocate Subroto Mookherjee, who moved the PIL, told the court that the government should recruit policemen considering the present security scenario in the state. In March, West Bengal Police decided to recruit 3,500 people from the unexhausted panel prepared by Kolkata Police in 2009. But one Biplab Sarkar had challenged the order in a tribunal, which held that it could be done only after making necessary amendments to the existing rules.

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