MUMBAI, March 20 (bdnews24.com/Reuters) - An Indian teacher who badly beat a boy and paraded him naked in front of the whole school as punishment has been convicted nearly a decade after the incident, a newspaper said on Tuesday.
The boy, identified only as Rakesh, had been pulled up on Sept. 15, 1997, for not wearing proper school trousers and was made to stand outside his class in a state-run school in New Delhi.
Instead of staying there, the sixth-grader went off to take a dip in the school water tank, along with a few other students, The Times of India said.
They were spotted by vice-principal P C Gupta. While the other students fled, Rakesh could not find his clothes and was caught.
The boy, now a 21-year-old married man, was dragged and severely beaten by Gupta and then paraded naked in front of the whole school for three hours.
"He had withdraw into a shell and it was much later that we realised he needed medical help," Guddi, his mother, was quoted as saying in The Times of India.
On Monday, a New Delhi court held Gupta guilty of dishonouring the dignity of a person, causing injury, criminal intimidation and use of criminal force.
The court will hear arguments about sentencing later this month, the paper said.
"It is a miracle that my son lived through it," Guddi said.
"So many times we felt he might commit suicide."
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