Patna, Aug. 28 -- National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has taken suo motu cognizance of the reported corporal punishment to several students by a teacher in a government middle school at Haflaganj under Mufassil police station area in Katihar district of Bihar and issued notices to state Chief Secretary and Police Superintendent of Katihar, asking them to file a detailed report on the incident within two weeks.
NHRC has taken suo motu cognizance of a media report that about 18 students at a government school were subjected to corporal punishment by their teacher after locking them inside a room of Government middle school in Haflaganj of Katihar district on August 21, 2025. Their ordeal stopped when some parents raised the alarm while v...