Jammu: After a Muslim child was thrashed by a teacher in Muzaffarnagar, Uttar Pradesh, a similar case has come to the fore from Jammu and Kashmir where a teacher beat up the child as he wrote ‘Jai Shri Ram’ on the blackboard of the classroom. The student had to be admitted to the hospital.
Police registered a case against the school principal and teacher and started inspecting the matter.
The incident took place at a government higher secondary school in Kathua district of the Union Territory. The hospitalized student told police that he was thrashed because he had written Jai Shri Ram on the blackboard in the classroom.
FIR Registered
The police registered an FIR against the accused teacher and the principal of the school. They both were booked under sections 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 342 (wrongful confinement), 504 (intentional insult), 506 (criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), and under section 75 (cruelty to a child) of the Juvenile Justice Protection Act.)
The Deputy Commissioner, in a notification, said that a three-member committee has been constituted to investigate it. The members include the sub-divisional magistrate of Bani, the deputy chief education officer of Kathua, and the principal of the Government Higher Secondary School in Kharote.
Earlier on Friday, a Muslim boy was thrashed by his classmate in a school in Uttar Pradesh’s Muzaffarnagar after a lady teacher asked to do so. A case was registered against the accused. Opposition parties including AIMIM Chief Asaduddin Owaisi raised questions on the Yogi government.
