The Bombay High Court has refused to grant protection from arrest to the chairperson of a school in Maharashtra's Kolhapur in a case of abetting the suicide of a student.

In an order passed last month, a bench of Justice Vinay Joshi rejected the anticipatory bail plea filed by Ganpatrao Patil, who was booked by the Kolhapur police in April on the charge of abetment to suicide, after a Class 10 student killed himself a few hours after he was allegedly reprimanded by Patil.