Kolkata: The principal and three teachers of La Martiniere for Boys School, who allegedly drove student Rouvanjit Rawla to commit suicide, on Wednesday challenged the order for their trial on charges of abetment to suicide of a child which carries a maximum sentence of death, in a higher court.
Chief Judge, Sessions Court, Dipak Saha Roy admitted their revision application against an order of the 12th Metropolitan Judge of Bankshall Court to re-frame charges after the police watered them down.
The magistrate had on November 19 ordered that the four would be tried under section 305 (abetment to suicide of a child or insane person), section 324 (voluntarily causing hurt) and section 34 (common intention) of IPC.
Section 305, if proved, can invite the death sentence or imprisonment for life or a prison term not exceeding ten years and a fine. Their trial, as per the magistrate's order, was to begin before a sessions judge on December 14.
Admitting the revision application by the teachers claiming that there was no ground to try them under section 305, the Chief Judge ordered that the matter would be heard on December 10.
Rawla was found hanging at his residence on February 12 this year, four days after being allegedly caned by the principal for misbehaviour and disobedience.
Principal Sunirmal Chakravarti and the three teachers - Garnian, Partho Dutta and David Raun - had been arrested on October four for the suicide of the 13-year-old class VII student but were given bail on the same day by the chief metropolitan magistrate as all the sections of IPC they were chargesheeted under were bailable.
The case had been filed by the student's father Ajay under section 305 of IPC, but the police had filed lesser charges under sections 323 and 324 , 352 (punishment without grave provocation) and 23 of the Juvenile Justice (negligence of duty).
Ajay had filed a police complaint at the Shakespeare Sarani Police station here four months after the incident.
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