Schoolteacher booked for making students slap classmate

Muzaffarnagar: As outrage poured in from all quarters including political parties, Muzaffarnagar Police on Saturday booked the teacher accused of making communal comments and ordering her students to slap a Muslim classmate for not doing his homework.

The school was also served a notice by the state education department in connection with the matter.

The teacher, Tripta Tyagi, was booked a day after a video showed her asking students to slap the Class 2 boy at Neha Public School and also making a communal remark.

The video elicited strong words from several political leaders with NCPCR, the apex child right body, demanding action against the accused teacher.

Police booked Tyagi at the complaint of the boy's family, under IPC sections 323 and 504 -- both noncognizable offences. Such offences are bailable.

In her defence, Tyagi, said the video has been tampered with in order to stoke tensions. She claimed the video was shot by an uncle of the boy.

She said though it was wrong to get a student slapped by his classmates, she was forced to do it as she is handicapped and was not able to stand up. (PTI)