New Delhi: Shanno, the 11-year-old-girl who died after allegedly being brutally punished in a Delhi school, is back in the news.
Her father, Mohammad Ayub Khan, has now filed an RTI petition to get the details of her post-mortem. The family may also seek legal help in the case.
They said RTI applications will be filed with three hospitals -- Maharashi Balmiki Hospital where she was initially admitted, Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Hospital where she was shifted and Maulana Azad Medical College, which conducted the postmortem.
Her parents met Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit last week and sought her intervention for a thorough probe into the incident.
Shanno died earlier this month after being in coma for two days. The postmortem report said that Shanno might have died of epileptic seizures and that there were no external injury marks on her body but her family believes it was a result of the punishment meted out to her by her teacher. The child had slipped into comma after her teacher punished her and died on April 17.
The police had earlier filed a case against the teacher under section 304A, but the parents say that she should be charged for culpable homicide not amounting to murder.
Meanwhile, her classmates have told the police that the teacher did not make Shanno squat in the sun with bricks on her shoulders as her family alleges. They said that the students told investigators that Shanno and three others were made to squat by their teacher Manju for about 10 to 15 minutes but it was not in the sun.
So far, police have recorded the statements of around 40 students of the MCD school in Outer Delhi's Bawana who have given their versions of the incident. A senior police official has said that they are yet to find any concrete evidence against the teacher with regard to corporal punishment leading to Shanno's death.
"We are waiting viscera report to ascertain the cause of the girl's death and have asked the forensic laboratory to take it up on a priority basis," the official said.
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