Scandal in school shakes up Delhi

The Telegraph - Calcutta : Frontpage: "Two Class XI students had sex on their school premises and shot it with a mobile phone enabled with multimedia messaging service, or MMS. Parents and teachers were shocked by news of the incident, but for the past month, a video of three to four minutes’ duration has been the most widely known secret at Delhi Public School, R.K. Puram.

The video is said to have explicit footage of the two students — they should be 17 years of age — engaging in sex. The girl’s face is reportedly visible in the clip that has been circulating among students, passing from one MMS-enabled equipment — camera phone in popular parlance — to another. Some are believed to have downloaded the video from some Internet sites.

Both students come from affluent backgrounds — the boy is from a business family and the girl’s father is said to be in the services. The school has put up a notice warning parents and students against bringing mobile phones. Anyone caught with a cellphone on the premises will face confiscation and a Rs 1,000 penalty.

Once the incident came to light, separate lunch breaks have been started at DPS RK Puram — one for students of Classes XI and XII and another for the rest of the school — so that the authorities can keep a close eye on their wards. It may, however, be too late to insulate the rest of the school from the scandal as the authorities were the last to find out."