Kolkata: The Church of North India, which runs the La Martiniere
for Boys, has alleged the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights probe into the suicide by a student of the school was done with a "pre-conceived notion".
"The CNI strongly questions the role of the NCPCR probe team, as the way they conducted the investigations makes it clear that they were working with a pre-conceived notion and that they were not impartial," said Suman Biswas, executive committee member of the CNI Synod and the Kolkata Diocese.
Rouvanjit Rawla, a Class VIII student, committed suicide on February 12, four days after allegedly being caned by La Martiniere principal Sunirmal Chakravarthy
Ashok Agarwal, a member of the three-member NCPCR team that investigated Rouvanjit's suicide, has said that he doesn’t rule out the possibility of humiliation and corporal punishment leading to Rouvanjit's suicide.
But Biswas alleged that the NCPCR team didn't speak to Rouvanjit's teachers or recorded their views and conducted the investigation on "whims and fancies".
The NCPCR team interviewed students who didn’t belong to Rouvanjit's class or didn’t know him, said Biswas.
"It is also very surprising that the investigating team had gone to the press with its views before submitting its report to the NCPCR. As far as we know, the team was there to investigate and not give its judgment," he told PTI.
Biswas alleged vested interests were trying to use Rouvanjit's suicide to settle personal scores and claimed the controversy "suspiciously" began after a member was from the school’s board of governors and his books excluded from the school curriculum.
The West Bengal Association of Christian Schools and the Bangiya Christiya Pariseba, an association of Christian organisations in West Bengal, are conducting a joint investigation into the allegations against the school.
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