With irate guardians of students of a Kolkata school going berserk ransacking the school property a day after a Class V student fell victim to ragging by her seniors, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee quickly went into damage-control mode assuring strong action against the school authorities and perpetrators of the offence.
“There is no place of ragging in Bengal neither in schools nor in colleges as can be seen from the strong actions we have been taking frequently,” the Chief Minister said after speaking to the mother of the victim Oindrila Das the student of a private English medium school.
The girl who was repeatedly harassed by some senior students for Rs 100 which they asked her to fetch from her parents and locked her up inside a bathroom as she failed to oblige. The terrified child went into acute depression and left eating. Subsequently she died on Wednesday allegedly following wrong treatment.
Meanwhile an irate mob of a few thousand including guardians on Thursday ransacked the school protesting the gruesome incident even as some other junior girls alleged similar harassments by some seniors.