Educational institutions have to recognise the malady of harsh discipline and remedy the wrong in a different manner so that the lives of young souls would be saved, the High Court of Karnataka has said.
Justice M. Nagaprasanna made these observations while refusing to quash the cognisance of offence taken by a magistrate court in Kodagu against the principal, the warden, and the director of a private school in Gonikoppa for allegedly abetting the suicide of a 15-year-old boy, a IX standard student.
Stating that the documents submitted to the court by the school authorities were generated after the death of the boy or were farther from the truth, the court said: “the falsity noted is not in thin air but on the strength of document, and therefore it is not a case where there is neither instigation nor provocation. It is the case which has both, albeit, prima facie.”
