Kolkata: Forty eight hours after a Class-IV student of a reputable Dum Dum school was repeatedly slapped by her teacher - that left the nine-year-old with a swollen cheek and a bleeding ear - police have sent a legal notice to the accused seeking to question her. The girl had put down a wrong roll number on her project copy. Advocate Tapas Kumar Bhanja, whose PIL on February 6, 2004 prompted Calcutta high court chief justice justice Ashok Kumar Mathur and justice Barin Ghosh to prohibit corporal punishment in schools, plans to move the HC afresh. Bhanja now plans to file a contempt petition against schools and school education department for failing to ensure the ban. The school authorities have suspended the teacher after the guardians agitated. "A probe committee formed by the school authorities is conducting the investigation and the teacher will remain suspended till it's over," said Reverend Miran Kumar Mondal, a senior official of the Church of North India's (CNI) Barrackpore diocese, adding that if she is found guilty a stern action will be taken against her. Police claimed on Friday that they were collecting evidence against the accused teacher, Piyush Pratik Malakar, of St Stephen's school before arresting her who had allegedly meted out corporal punishment to the nine-year-old girl. "The investigation is on and the cops have already spoken to the school authorities and the girl's parents. A legal notice has already been sent to the accused on the basis of the complaint," said Ajay Thakur, DC(DD), Barrackpore commissionerate. The parents of the girl, however, said that they would send their child to school after the school's senior members, including Reverend Mondal and teacher-in-charge Sunita Singh, met the girl at her residence in Dum Dum's Kumorpara on Friday and promised to provide legal assistance to the family. "We are satisfied with their assurance and have decided to send my daughter to the school next Monday. The school committee members, including the father (reverend), expressed their sorrow that such incident don't repeat and assured us of all kind of assistance. My daughter is now recovering," the girls' father told TOI. Even after a decade of the HC order, things have not moved much, felt Bhanja and for that on Thursday there were two cases of corporal punishment one at a school at Dum Dum and another at Katwa. He would appeal to the court to introduce counselling sessions in the schools and it should be there in the routine. Moreover, he wants mandatory appointment of counsellors in the schools also. too, as an order was given by the HC in 2012 following his second PIL filed in 2009. The HC had also asked to advertise against corporal punishment. He also feels that the BEd syllabus should have a sensitization programme to stop corporal punishment in schools.