disciplining tool but in india it's still widely used despite being banned for a decade and as karen singh reports claims that teachers are being violent towards children a right. this is one of india's worst kept secrets the prevalence of corporal punishment in schools but the recent suicide of thirteen year old grungy rival has brought the practice out into the open a student at the prestigious the motley awful boys' school in kolkata who run deep hanged himself at home earlier this year after being gained at school after spending months juicing the school for answers his father has filed a police complaint against the three teachers he says were involved i think that they were after him for a long while and i think he was so long as he was getting an individual. back to being if i may use the word he was able to take it but when they all descended on him at the same time that day i don't think. i don't think his young mind could handle that much animosity. and humiliation and elimination from his friends the school's principal has admitted killing raji but says this was not responsible