In a shocking incident of corporal punishment, a class 2 student of an Uttar Pradesh school was brutally beaten up by a teacher for not sweeping the floor properly. The teacher allegedly pushed the boy, Deepak, and he fell on a desk, critically injuring his eye.
The incident took place at Ganauli Primary school in Patranga village of Ayodhya district. Deepak’s family has registered a complaint with the Patranga police against the accused. The police registered a case and have claimed that the accused teacher is absconding. The police have formed a team to investigate the matter and is on the lookout for the accused.
Despite corporal punishment being a punishable offence in India, such incidents keep coming to the fore every day. In July 2019, in Odisha’s tribal-dominated Nabarangpur district, seven primary school students were beaten up so viciously by a teacher for not being able to spell a word and give its correct meaning, that they had to be hospitalised.
Meanwhile, in another incident, a primary school teacher in Mahmudabad was suspended after a video of him smoking inside the classroom went viral on social media.
“Video of teacher smoking inside the classroom had gone viral on social media. I had sent the division education officer to the school to confirm the identity of the teacher. After his face matched with the person in the video, I suspended him,” DNA quoted District Basic Education Officer Ajay Kumar as saying.
Kumar said that teachers are not supposed to smoke inside classrooms at all. “Teachers have a huge impact on students. They shouldn’t smoke at all,” he said. In the video, the teacher was seen lighting a smoking a beedi (hand-rolled cigarette) in a classroom filled with primary students.
