SCW issues warning to college for corporal punishment

Updated on: Saturday, July 23, 2011

The State Commission for Women (SCW) today issued a warning to the principal of a city-based private college here for allegedly meting out corporal punishment to its students.

Students of the college, including girls, were allegedly beaten up by their teachers for their poor performance in an examination.

No complaints were, however, lodged with the police.

SCW chairperson Jyoti Panigrahi, who visited the college, said, "We found scar marks and wounds on the bodies of both male and female students ... We also seized a big stick from the principal's room."

The principal of the college has admitted the charges and said the teachers had punished the students in order to control them, Panigrahi said.

Claiming that he took the step to "better the future" of students, college principal Sunil Mohanty said, "I have no personal anger against any of them."

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