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“We had cameras earlier also but it was not inside the hostel having a capacity of 100 students. “Since the visit of CBSE board officials during affiliation time in late 1990s, no one has ever visited our place for sensitizing us. Influential politicians or administration officials came to visit the campus for donation or religious purpose,” he maintained.On the allegations of caning students for a small mistake, he said that they do deal with hostler students strictly and sometime resort to beating, but that was done to keep them away from bad habits. He further said that they had also appointed Jagminder Sangwan, a child psychologist as director of the institute, who could engage with the students to deal with their personal issues in cordial atmosphere.Hari Dutt said accused principal Jaivir, who is on the run since the event unfolded, and two other teachers booked in the FIR had been suspended till they come clean. After the crime was highlighted, we have taken a decision to install suggestion-cum-complaint boxes for junior students to lodge their complaints without revealing their identity to curb such episodes in future,” Hari Dutt added.The education institute founder added that they had hung emergency helpline numbers at the entrance of the education institute for hostlers to contact if they want to seek outside intervention.Breaking silence over the episode, Hari Dutt who dedicated his ancestral land for raising the educational institute, said that they were unaware that the school should install suggestion/complaint boxes/CCTV cameras..