Imphal, December 28 2010: The Coalition on Children's Right to Protection (CCRP), Manipur on Tuesday requested Manipur Chief Minister for his immediate intervention in delivering justice to recent incidents occurred in two Jawahar Novodaya Vidyalaya (JNVs) in the state.

On November 29, 2010, Chingakham Brington Singh (17), a student of class-XII at Thoubal district JNV, Umathel committed suicide after he was alleged of having been caught in a compromising position with Kshetrimayum Ghanapriyari Devi, a girl student of the same class.

A week later, another case of police brutality involving Khumbong JNV students of XI and XII surfaced on December 5.The students were allegedly caned by the police in the school campus.

The incidents tantamount to child right violations, the CCRP alleged in a memorandum submitted to the Manipur Chief Minister seeking government intervention into the incidents.

Based on the report of a fact finding team, the CCRP alleged that Brington committed suicide unable to bear with the humiliation and mental harassment meted out by the authority of the school.

The girl student, Ghanapriyari is also in a mental trauma humiliated by the school authorities, the report added.

The finding suggested that there were no intimate relationships between the two students but that a teacher, Chongtham Babita had misinterpreted the situation.

Brington who could not bear the humiliation meted out to him in presence of his classmates and the staff of the school, committed suicide on the same day at a hillock in his village, the fact finding report stated.

With regard to police brutality at JNV Khumbong, the fact finding report observed that the school authority unable to resolve a dispute among the senior students led to the students rampaging the school's infrastructure in the night on December 5 .

The CCRP observed that the way the school authorities handled the cases were irresponsible.

Since the school authorities failed to verify the facts of the incidents with eyewitness explanations from the two students of JNV Umathel, they are responsible above all for the suicide of the humiliated student.

In the case of JNV Khumbong, instead of conducting a proper enquiry into the incident, the police physically and mentally harassed the students of JNV Khumbong.

The CCRP says these are vivid examples of child rights violations in the two schools.

The dignity and self respect of the students were seriously demeaned by the attitudes of the school authorities and the state police, they observed, and stressed on the need of an immediate intervention of the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights, New Delhi.

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