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WATCH: 70 UP Schoolgirls Made To Strip By Principal To ‘Check For Menstrual Blood'

Darpan News Desk IANS, 31 Mar, 2017 12:29 PM
    In a shocking and a shameful incident, as many as 70 girls of Kasturba Gandhi Residential School at Digri village were on Thursday stripped naked allegedly by a school principal to check for menstrual blood.
     
    The girls at a residential school were allegedly threatened and forced to strip by the principal, following which an inquiry has been ordered into the incident.
     
    The students have alleged that they were stripped naked by the principal to check for menstrual blood.
     
     
    The parents of the victims have filed a complaint.
     
    The principal allegedly threatened the students of dire consequences if they disobeyed her command, said District Primary Education Officer Chander Kesh Yadav, adding that an enquiry has been ordered.
     
    "There was no teacher around. We were called downstairs (from the hostel). Madam made us take off our clothes saying she will beat us if we did not. We are kids, what could we do? She would have beaten us if we did not obey her," said one of the students. The principal, however, has denied the allegations.
     
    "No one asked them to remove clothes. All this is a conspiracy by the staff because they do not want me to stay here. I had been asked to check whether the staff were performing their duties. I am strict, that is why they hate me," she said.
     
    Meanwhile, 35 students of the school left after the reports of harassment by the principal surfaced. 

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