The warden of a school
hostel in India, who allegedly forced a student to drink her own urine
as punishment for bed-wetting, has been granted bail.
The girl's parents lodged a complaint alleging that the warden had "squeezed urine into the girl's mouth from the bed sheet". The incident has caused outrage and sparked debate in India.
The Patha Bhavan school has begun an investigation in to the incident. The warden has made no public comment yet.
The parents, who were also arrested for "unauthorised entry" to the school, have been released on bail too.
Patha Bhavan school, in the town of Santiniketan in West Bengal state, is run by Viswa Bharati university, which was set up by Nobel-winning poet Rabindranath Tagore.
A spokesperson for the university said they had received a complaint from the girl's parents and formed a four-member committee to investigate the case. The girl was in the school's fifth grade, and she is reported to be about 10 years old.
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