Kolkata: Angry protestors - mostly parents and guardians - laid siege of a West Bengal school Thursday forcing its principal to resign for the death of a minor girl student after being "ragged".
The Mamata Banerjee government derided the "hooliganism" but assured strict action against all those responsible for the girl's death, which her parents claimed was due to trauma and shock following the ragging.
Oindrila Das, 10, a Class 5 student of Christ Church School in Dum Dum on Kolkata's northern outskirts, died Wednesday a week after she was allegedly locked up inside the school toilet by some of her seniors who demanded money from her.
Parents and guardians ransacked the school demanding the arrest and removal of principal Helen Sarkar, alleging negligence and inaction on her part.
With the agitation streching late into the evening warranting heavy police deployment, Sarkar not only apologised publicly for the incident and assured strict action, but later tendered her resignation which was read out by police.
"I take full responsibility and hereby tender my resignation as the school principal," said a police officer read out Sarkar's resignation on the microphone. But the move failed to pacify the protestors as "the resignation was written on a plain paper which has no value".
"Does she think we are fools? We will not deter unless she tenders her resignation formally on the school's official letterhead and sends to the authorities concerned," said a protestor.
