Boy axed for clicking teacher – Smut clips on cellphone of Class IX student shocks school
Posted by barunroy on June 5, 2008
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Malda, June 4: A Class IX boy of a school here was suspended after he was caught clicking one of the woman teachers of the school on his mobile last Saturday.
The teacher spotted the boy taking her photograph and had seized the cellphone.
“She then called us and we were shocked to see many obscene photographs saved in the phone memory. We immediately summoned the boy’s parents and placed him under suspension,” a senior teacher of the school said.
The 15-year-old, however, is good in studies and this dark side of his has shocked the teachers.
“He was always very attentive and scored well in his examinations. But this has left us devastated. If this kind of tendency is there in other students as well it will be a matter of concern,” the teacher said.
The secretary of the school managing committee and veteran member of the Malda Bar Association, Subir Bhowmik, was out of station.
“The decision on whether to expel the boy or suspend him for a period will be taken at a meeting of the managing committee to be held as soon as the secretary returns,” the headmaster of the school said.
The school today gave over for an extended vacation announced by the government because of the severity of this year’s summer. From Monday, however, the headmaster had banned all students from carrying mobile phones to school.
“If anyone is caught with one in school, the boy will be expelled then and there,” the headmaster said.
He said parents should not allow the use of mobile phones among minors as they were bound to be misused.
“We still remember how in 2004, a boy of a Delhi school engaged in a sexual act with a classmate had filmed it on his camera phone, sending the clip later to friends as a multimedia message (MMS). The boy was later arrested. The MMS had even been bought by eight customers,” said another teacher.
Police, too, are not taking the matter lightly.
“We do not have any laws to tackle this sort of crime as such. Obscene pictures and movie clips are circulated through MMS via mobile phones. We cannot prevent that. We can take action only when somebody is made a victim and there is a specific complaint. Parents and guardians need to sit up and take note,” said Malda police superintendent Satyajit Bandyopadhyay. [The Telegraph]
