PATNA: The Supreme Court cited concern today for the horrific attack on 34 girls at a residential school in Bihar. Nine boys and a parent have been arrested. All the boys are minors and allegedly were part of a mob that broke into the school in Saupaul, 250 km from Patna, and targeted teachers and students. The top court said that “all the newspaper reports were not good. Skeleton of girls were found and 34 girls beaten up because they wanted to protect themselves from molestation. How could they treat children like that? These kinds of problems were arising day in and day out. The court also told the Centre to set up a national institution to ensure proper psychological rehabilitation of victims as well as juvenile accused. The police said that thirty-four girls of the Kasturba Residential School had to be hospitalized after Saturday’s attack, which took place after a few girls of the school had resisted local boys’ attempts to molest them. When the boys continued to harass them, the girls had beaten them up. A couple of hours later, the boys had come back to the school, accompanied by their parents and relatives. They broke into the school and beat up the teachers and students. Senior police officer of the area, SK Singhal, said that all the nine accused and mother of one accused, total ten people were arrested in the case. The victims and assailants were all from the Scheduled Castes. He added that all the girls had been discharged from the hospital and there will be speedy trial in the case .]]>
