The Bandra Court has directed the Santacruz police to register an offence against a reputed school in Vile Parle after a petitioner parent alleged mental harassment of her child by it. Last year, the eight-year-old child was reprimanded for inappropriately touching his classmates, by the school. The parents later complained that the way the school treated the child thereon, was harassment.

Mother is relieved

The complainant parent who moved the Metropolitan Magistrate Court in Bandra after there was no response from the Maharashtra Commission for Protection of Child Rights (MCPCR) on the complaint, heaved a sigh of relief. "I am glad that the court has asked the police to investigate the case, which has been my demand since the beginning. Whenever I approached the police for investigation in my complaints, I was only given vague answers. Now following the court directives, police officers will have to conclude the investigation," said the child's mother.