Education Department Shuts Down School Where Teacher Made Kids Trash Muslim Student

The education department has shut down the school where a teacher had made the kids beat up their classmate for failing to do his homework, NDTV reported.

A notice has been issued by the education department in this regard. The students of Neha Public School will be admitted to other schools, the report said.

The incident occurred at Khubbapur village of Mansoorpur police station area, Muzaffarnagar, Uttar Pradesh.

On Friday evening, a clip of a boy being thrashed by students surfaced online, triggering an angry reaction from netizens.

In the clip, the victim stands before the class, while the teacher remains seated and urges fellow students to step up and slap their classmate. In succession, the students approach and strike the victim while the teacher supervises the situation.

"I have declared that send all the Muslim children there," the teacher is heard saying in the clip. Asking others to slap the victim, she states, "Why don't you hit them him with force."

Tripta Tyagi, the teacher who is in the centre of the controversy for making students slap their classmate, has justified her action saying that she is not "ashamed" of the incident.

"I am not ashamed. I have served the people of this village as a teacher. They all are with me," NDTV quoted Tyagi as saying.

She is said to be the principal of the school.

Tripta Tyagi was booked on the complaint of the boy's family under IPC sections 323 (punishment for voluntarily causing hurt) and 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace) -- both non-cognisable offences. Such offences are bailable and do not lead to immediate arrest, and require a warrant.