பத்மா சேஷாத்திரி பள்ளியின் கே.கே.நகர் பிரிவில், 16.08.2012 அன்று சிறுவன் ரஞ்சன் நீச்சல் குளத்தில் இறந்தது குறித்து, சென்னை மாநகர காவல்துறை வழக்கு பதிவு செய்து, அந்தப்பள்ளியின் நீச்சல் குளத்தை கழுவுபவர், துணை பிரி‘ன்சிபால் உள்ளிட்டோரை கைது செய்துள்ளது. பள்ளியின் அஜாக்கிரதைக்கு முதல் காரணமான பள்ளியின் இயக்குநர் மற்றும் டீன், ராஜலட்சுமி பார்த்தசாரதி மீது காவல்துறை இதுவரை வழக்கு பதிவு செய்யவில்லை.
அவர் மீது வழக்கு பதிவு செய்து சட்டப்படி நடவடிக்கை எடுக்கக் கோரி, தமிழக மக்கள் உரிமைக் கழகத்தின் சார்பில், உள்துறைச் செயலாளர் மற்றும் மாநகர காவல்துறை ஆணையருக்கு கடிதம் அனுப்பப்பட்டுள்ளது. இக்கடிதத்தை தொடர்ந்து, வரும் செவ்வாய்க்கிழமை, இக்கோரிக்கையை வலியுறுத்தி, தமிழக மக்கள் உரிமைக் கழகத்தின் சார்பில், சென்னை உயர்நீதிமன்றத்தில் பொதுநல வழக்கு தொடரப்பட உள்ளது என்பதையும், சவுக்க மகிழ்ச்சியோடு அறிவித்துக் கொள்கிறது.
From
P. Pugalenthi
Advocate
No.5, 4th floor
Sunkurama Street
Chennai 600 001
To
1. The Secretary to Government
Home Department
Secretariat, Chennai 600 009
2. The Commissioner of Police
Egmore, Chennai 600 008
3. The Inspector of Police
KK Nagar Police Station
Chennai 600 078
Sirs:
It is widely reported in the press today that a nine-year-old boy studying in Class IV at the Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan Senior Secondary School (PSBBSS School), KK Nagar, Chennai drowned in the school swimming pool on Thursday morning (16 August 2012) during a swimming class.
The Hindu dated August 17, 2012 (City Edition: Chennai) reports: “M. Ranjan, who has been swimming from the age of seven, was doing his laps from one end of the pool to the other on a stretch of water that was not more than four feet deep along with 25 of his classmates. ‘Around 9.30 am, after a couple of laps, he tried to come up by taking the pool ladder but struggled to breathe and collapsed. School swimming coach Rajasekaran and his assistant rushed to the boy’s aid and pulled him out”, said R. Sivakumar, Deputy Commissioner of Police, T. Nagar.’ “.
As could be seen from the press reports, Ranjan drowned in the school swimming pool while swimming under the supervision of one Mr.Rajasekaran, who is said to be the swimming coach employed by the PSBBSS School, KK Nagar, Chennai. The Dean and Director of the PSBBSS School, who is in charge of the affairs of the said school, is aware that it would be humanly impossible for one Swimming Coach and one Assistant Swimming Coach to supervise 26 children swimming in the pool and that there should be a minimum of five efficient persons to take care of 26 children swimming in the pool. The Dean and Director of the PSBBSS School is also aware that her failure to employ sufficient number of swimming coaches to take care of a group of 26 children swimming in the pool might result in the death of children in the swimming pool. The death of M. Ranjan, studying in class IV at the said school, has been caused solely on account of the failure of the Dean and Director of the PSBBSS School to employ sufficient number of swimming coaches to take care of a group of 26 children on 16 August 2012. The death of the boy in the swimming pool of PSBBSS School, KK Nagar, Chennai is nothing short of “culpable homicide” as defined under section 299 IPC.
Section 299 IPC inter alia says that whoever causes death by doing an act with the knowledge that he is likely by such act to cause death, commits the offence of culpable homicide. Since the Dean & Director of the said school has, by not employing sufficient number of swimming coaches to take care of 26 children swimming in the school swimming pool on 16 August 2012, committed the offence of culpable homicide, I request that a case may be registered against her for an offence punishable under section 304 (part 2) IPC in connection with the death of M. Ranjan, a nine-year-old student studying in Class IV, at the Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan Senior Secondary School, KK Nagar, Chennai, in the swimming pool inside the compound of the said school on 16 August 2012.
Sincerely
P. Pugalenthi
