Taking a serious note of incidents of severe punishment to school students and those of eve teasing in the state, Haryana Police has instructed its field functionaries to take immediate action.
Besides, it has also been decided to increase police patrolling during the opening and closing hours of schools, said Haryana Additional Director General of Police (law and Order) Muhammad Akil while addressing a press conference.
He said that several incidents had come to notice of the police in which the school students were made to bear inhuman treatment and face harsh punishments like forcing them to stand under sun, sever beating and even insulting them.
He said that in few cases, the sensitive children even took the extreme step of committing suicide. Taking a serious note of these incidents, all the field unit of the police have been directed to take immediate action in such cases as per the law, he added.