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Teacher 'tortures five-year-old for 20 days'

The Delhi high court today appointed a high-level three-member committee to go into the case of alleged assault, beating and psychological torture of a five-year-old child by his class teacher for 20 days, causing him mental trauma and physical injuries.

The court was hearing a petition by Tijan Ahmad Khan, a student of standard one in the New Delhi Municipal Corporation-owned Navyug Public School in Gole Market area of central Delhi. Khan said a first information report should be registered against his teacher Sunila Vinayak.

Terming it an unfortunate litigation, a division bench comprising Justices Y K Sabharwal and A K Srivastava said a joint secretary from the human resource development ministry would head the committee. The other members are New Delhi Municipal Council chairman Imtiaz Khan and the Delhi government's education director.

Asking the central government to appoint the committee chairman in two days, the judges asked the committee to investigate the whole episode and submit its report, as far as possible, within two weeks.

The judges fixed November 24 for further directions.

''We wish that the matter of this nature had not come to the court because of the delicate relationship between students on one hand and the teachers on the other. Unfortunately, in this case a stalemate has continued,'' the bench observed.

UNI

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