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Bengal girl refuses to go back to school

Last Updated 10 July 2012, 18:46 IST

A 10-year-old student who was allegedly made to drink her own urine on the Visva-Bharati campus in West Bengal as a punishment for bed-wetting said that she does not want to continue in the same school.

“I won’t go back to the hostel. I want to study in another school. They may again ask me to do the same thing,” said the Class V student of Patha Bhavan school. She said her parents had agreed to her request.“It is so shameful for me to lick my own urine. Being a 10-year-old, when I do not believe in such superstitions, how the warden can have faith in such things,” she said.The Visva-Bharati university authorities have claimed that the warden, Uma Poddar, asked her to lick the urine since she believed the practice would cure her of bedwetting.The authorities, have requested the girl’s parents to make her a day scholar and have also constituted a committee to look into the matter.

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(Published 10 July 2012, 18:46 IST)

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