Close on the heels of the Deoband Darul Uloom’s circular asking its students not to learn English failing which they would be expelled from the campus, the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR), wrote a letter on Thursday to the District Magistrate (DM), Saharanpur, to take action against the education department of the Deoband for issuing such an order.
“Your attention is once again drawn to such kind of unlawful and misleading notices being issued by Darul Uloom wherein rights of children are blatantly disregarded. The recent notice threatens the students of severe consequences which is violation of Section 17 of RTE Act, 2009 which prohibits physical punishment or mental harassment to any child,” reads the letter issued by NCPCR chairperson Priyank Kanongo.
It added that the circular also violated Section 75 of the Juvenile Justice Act, 2015 for cruelty against children that states that whoever is having the actual charge of, or control over, a child, assaults, abandons, exposes or willfully neglects the child or causes or procures the child to be assaulted, abandoned, abused, exposed or neglected in a manner likely to cause such unnecessary mental or physical suffering shall be punishable. The NCPCR chief asked the DM to take immediate action in the matter and ensure that the circular was withdrawn at the earliest.
