Indian Teacher Convicted For Parading Student Naked

Indian Teacher Convicted For Parading Student Naked

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NEW DELHI -- A New Delhi court convicted a school teacher for parading a student from a low caste family naked in front of his peers for three hours nearly a decade ago, a report said Tuesday.

P.C. Gupta, who was the vice-principal of a government school in the capital New Delhi in 1997, was charged with dishonoring the dignity of a person, causing injury, criminal intimidation and the use of criminal force, the Times of India reported.

Criminal cases have been known to take decades in India's clogged judicial system due to a shortage of judges and a mammoth backlog of cases.

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Nearly a decade ago???? The conviction only came now?

What's happening here?

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[edit on 20-3-2007 by searching_for_truth]

The student might have been too young to have any word over what happen, but now that they're older, their words carry more weight.

Either that or the memory of it had been suppressed until now.