Srinagar, June 11 -- "She said they beat her for not bringing a notebook," he said.

Anam studies in Class 3 at Presentation Convent Higher Secondary School, one of the most reputed girls' schools in Srinagar.

On June 10, according to her father, she returned from school in a condition that scared the whole family.

"She was vomiting, barely conscious," Altaf toldKashmir Observer. "Her eyes weren't opening. She looked like she had been through hell."

Altaf says the school didn't inform him right away. When they finally called, it was already late afternoon.

"What hurts me the most," he said, "isn't just that she may have been beaten. It's that they didn't treat her or even rush her to a hospital."

The distraught father rushed his daug...