New Delhi, Jul 10: The Prime Minister's Office has sought a report from the HRD Ministry on a fifth class girl student's being allegedly forced to drink her urine in Visva Bharati in Santinikean.
Sources said the PMO has asked for a report from the HRD Minister about the the incident which occurred in a school under the Visva-Bharati University, a central varsity whose chancellor is the Prime Minister.
The hostel warden, who had allegedly forced the student to drink her own urine as a punishment for bed-wetting, has been arrested and placed under suspended.
The incident sparked an outrage and National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) slapped a notice on West Bengal government asking it to probe the matter and submit a report in the next 10 days.
Meanwhile, the warden of Patha Bhavan hostel of Visva Bharati University who allegedly forced the girl student to drink her own urine has been arrested on a complaint by the father.
The warden of Karabi Girls' Hostel, Uma Poddar, was arrested for compelling the student, who wet her bed, to drink her urine squeezed from the bedsheet on Saturday night, Sub-Divisional Police Officer of Bolpur Prasanta Chowdhury said.
The girl's father Manoj Mistry, a resident of Mokrampur village near here, had lodged a complaint with the Bolpur police station.
He had rushed to the hostel that night and taken home his daughter, a student of Class V. The Visva-Bharati authorities has formed a four-member committee to look into t he matter and submit a report.
University sources had claimed the warden made the girl lick the bedsheet she had wetted and not forced her to drink her urine.
The sources had claimed that the girl had wet her bed earlier also and that she was ill. The warden had told the distraught mother of the student that what she did was ‘treatment to stop a bad habit'.
Meanwhile, the father was also arrested on a counter complaint of trespass lodged by the university authorities, the SDPO said.
