Madras High Court directs four youth to clean classrooms and write on Gandhi, Kamaraj, Dr. Kalam as conditions for anticipatory bail

The Madras High Court recently directed four college students to clean school classrooms for a week and write essays on published works of Mahatma Gandhi, K Kamaraj and Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam as conditions for grant of anticipatory bail. .Justice RMT Teeka Raman granted anticipatory bail to the four who were charged by the Tamil Nadu police for having ransacked their former school earlier this year following an altercation with some junior students over the choice of music during a school retreat festival in August..The judge directed all the four accused persons, who were students of Class XII at the time of the incident, to furnish bail bond of ₹1,000 each and to clean at least four classrooms of the Montfort Anglo Indian Higher Secondary School in Yercaud where they had been studying at the time of the incident.“Accordingly, all the petitioners are ordered to be released on bail in the event of arrest or on their appearance, subject to the following conditions - (a) all the petitioners are required to appear before the Head Master of the Montfort Anglo Indian Higher Secondary School, Yercaud and each of the petitioner shall execute a bond for a sum of Rs.1000/- ; (b) to clean and keep the classrooms (not less than 4 class room for each person) clean including black board, table, bench and the floor for a week and also (c) spend time in the school library and e-library to prepare notes by handwritten (not less than four pages) on - (i) non-violation from excerpts of Mahatma Gandhi, (ii) educational schemes promoted by the former Chief Minister Mr.K.Kamraj and (iii) dream and vision of Dr. Abdul Kalam,” the Court said..In an order passed on September 29, Justice Teeka Raman also directed each of the students to go through the writing of Mahatma Gandhi on non-violence and to study the published works of former TN Chief minister K Kamaraj and former president of India Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam. He directed all four students to write at least four pages on what they had learnt from such writings and to submit it to the head master of their alma mater. The judge also directed that the essays written by the accused must be published on the school’s official website and be displayed there for a year.Justice Teeka Raman also cautioned the accused against plagiarism and said that they must make their own notes and should write in hand and not type them on a computer or any other electronic device to ensure that they do not “cut copy paste from Google.”.As per the FIR registered in the case, the accused along with some other students of class XII had entered into a disagreement with some students of Class X during the retreat event over whose choice of songs should be played first.A few days later, the accused allegedly roughed up the class X students and ransacked parts of the school hostel.Several students and staff were also injured in the incident. The school authorities lodged a complaint and the police registered an FIR booking the accused students under charges of rioting, criminal trespass, Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act, etc.,.Senior Counsel A Ramesh and advocates S Rajkumar and C Iyyapparaj appeared for the accused students.Government Advocate Leonard Arul Joseph Selvam appeared for the respondent State government..[Read Order]

Madras High Court directs four youth to clean classrooms and write on Gandhi, Kamaraj, Dr. Kalam as conditions for anticipatory bail

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