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Teacher punched by colleague ‘for wearing salwar kameez’

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Sreecheta Das

Posted: Aug 12, 2010 at 0503 hrs IST

Kolkata Papri Deb, a teacher in Ayma Gajankole Government High School, was punched on the shoulder by a male colleague, Ganesh Chandra Mondal, at a staff council meeting during a discussion on the “impropriety” of wearing a salwar kameez to school. According to Deb, she and five women teachers started wearing salwar kameez to school 15 days ago. “Some teachers were resenting this from the very beginning but we continued wearing the salwar kameez because it is legal,” said Deb.

“The discussion at the staff council meeting was becoming very hostile but everyone was trying to be decent. Suddenly Ganeshbabu threatened me saying, “Salwar porte na bola hoyeche, porben na. Noile mere mukh fatie debo (Do as you are being told. Otherwise we will punch you on your face.) I couldn’t believe my ears and got up, asking him to repeat what he said. He then punched me right on my shoulder.”

She has lodged a complaint with the Shyampur police station and submitted a written application to the DI’s office. She complained of severe pain on the neck and was given first aid and a tetanus injection at a nearby hospital.

However, the school’s assistant headmaster, Ajay Kumar Gayen, claimed that Deb was capitalising on “this minor fault on Mondal’s part and trying to shift all attention from the fact that she had been rebuked for carrying her mobile phone to class, which is not allowed in the school”.

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Teacher Punched by Indian Gal on 12 Aug 2010

Who in the world are men to tell US women What to wear now!!!! Slawaar Kameez is more appropiate then wearing a sari, show all....Hello!!! we should ask men to wear Dhoti's to School. To the Principal...DO NOT CHANGE the subject and go to something that wasn't part of the Debate(mobile phone)HE should be kicked out of his position along with the Teacher who punched!!!!!

The principal should be kicked out by Rohit on 12 Aug 2010

He has the audacity to call it a minor fault on the part of his male colleague! And where did a mobile phone come into the discussion of wearing salwaar kameez? Ridiculous events in a ridiculous state. The lady teachers should not give up their fight for their rights.

So we can hit women if...... by Nishanth on 12 Aug 2010

Oh yeah, I get it. So it is all right to punch a women for carrying a mobile phone to the class. Ajay Kumar Gayen should also be made party for this stupid statement, and fired form the job. Teachers should be an example to the students, not in the wrong way.

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