Rouvanjit’s dad gets ‘pay fees’ SMSes

Kolkata’s La Martiniere School for Boys, whose principal and three teachers were recently accused of abetting the suicide of student Rouvanjit Rawla, has courted another controversy.

Rouvanjit’s father Ajay received an SMS on Wednesday to pay pending school fees at the earliest.

“I had received a similar SMS last month,” he claimed.
“I lost my son in February and the school claims we have not paid fees yet. How is it possible? My financial condition has never been such [poor] that I would not pay my son’s school fees.

“I fail to understand what kind of human beings are they. I lost my son at such a young age only because of them. And now, they are sending me such SMSes,” Ajay fumed.

La Martiniere authorities, however, ascribed the SMSes to a technical error. 

A school spokesman said  the SMS was erroneously sent to Ajay’s mobile phone due to  technical flaws in the system. Another school official said  the error may have occurred since there were two students of the same name.

Rouvanjit, a class VIII student of the school, had committed suicide on February 12, four days after he was caned by principal Sunirmal Chakravarthy.