TN: Boy allegedly forced to drink urine, teachers suspended

Saturday, Jul 21, 2012: Close on the heels of the Shantiniketan case, a 14-year-old boy of a private school here was allegedly forced to drink his own urine by three teachers after he sought permission to go to the toilet.


As the students sitting under the shade of a tree were asked to read soon after the class began, the boy asked for permission to got the toilet which the three teachers monitoring them refused initially, parents of the boy claimed.


As the boy kept on pestering the teachers, they asked him to urinate under the tree and drink it and later beat him up, according to the complaint filed with the school by his parents Desinkurajan and Poongodi.


Upset at the alleged treatment meted out to him, the boy escaped to his native village Sholanmalai near Kumbakonam, where he has been admitted to a government hospital, the parents said.