Is this kind of bevaviour of teacher common in Nepal ? 9th grader lands in hospital after writing love letter Teachers at a local high school in Dolakha district have gained notoriety for punishing a student for writing a simple “love letter” to a girl. 16-year-old Shyamkaji Pakuwal, a class 9 student in Kalika Higher Secondary School in Sundrawati, Dolakha, was locked up inside a room for hours and mercilessly beaten by his teachers including the school’s principal for expressing his love for a girl studying in the same school through a love letter, something that is pretty normal in adolescent of that age. After receiving such a treatment from his own teachers the boy’s condition became so bad that he had to be taken to the hospital located at the district headquarter for treatment. The boy told media persons from his hospital bed that for the “crime” of writing a simple love letter school principal Krishna Prasad Mainali and two other teachers locked him up inside the office room and beat him up with plastic pipe while showering kicks and punches in his head, chest and back. Balkrishna Khadka, one of the teachers who the boy accuses of beating him, admitted that though they had “grilled” the boy for harassing the girl, they never tortured him. nepalnews.com ag Aug 17 07