Jamshedpur, March 3: Negligence slur on principal and games teacher in police inquiry into a student’s death case has prompted DAV Public School to look into possibilities of obtaining anticipatory bail from court.

Sources in the school said the harried authorities are even discussing option for bail with their lawyer and are also seeking legal advice from senior counsels in Jharkhand High Court.

Though the school is pondering over moving bail petition but sources said things depend on the sections the police are going to enforce against the principal, Papiya Mukherjee, and games teacher Kavita Swain.

A case under IPC Section 304 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder) has already been lodged against three classmates of Harshdeep Singh Kalsi, a Class II-B student of the school who died under mysterious circumstances after collapsing inside the campus on February 8.

The bail option can be exercised only when the police lodge a case under Section 304 against the principal and games teacher, sources in the legal circles said. “The offence under this section is not bailable. Bail can only be moved in the court of district judge,” they said, adding punishment under this section can be life imprisonment or 10 years of imprisonment.

The sources said the school should not rush with exercising the bail option since it is still not clear as to what sections the police was going to enforce against the teachers.

The school cannot reach an out-of-court compromise with the student’s family too. “The compromise can be reached only after trial proceedings begin in court,” said a lawyer.

In his inquiry, deputy superintendent of police Dinesh Oraon held the teachers responsible for negligence causing to the death of Harshdeep.