Caught on camera: Tamil Nadu teacher kicks student, beats him with stick ‘for skipping class’

The teacher has been arrested and booked under the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.

The student was made to kneel and the teacher held his hair and continuously beat him up with a stick. (Video screengrab)

A video of a teacher brutally assaulting a boy inside a government school classroom in front of his classmates in Tamil Nadu’s Cuddalore district on Wednesday has gone viral on social media. The teacher has been arrested and booked under the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.

The incident, which took place at the Government Nandanar Boys Higher Secondary School near Chidambaram, was filmed by a classmate of the class 12 student. The teacher punished the student allegedly for skipping an earlier class.

The student was made to kneel and the teacher held his hair and continuously beat him up with a stick. Despite the student’s pleas that he would not repeat the mistake, the teacher went on lashing and kicking him.

Taking cognisance of the incident, Cuddalore district collector K Balasubramaniam told indianexpress.com that he had ordered a probe into the incident.

“As soon as we received the report, I informed the department to conduct an inquiry. The student had apparently attended the first hour and skipped the second one of the physics class,” he said.

Around 500 students from class 6-12 are studying in the government school.

Janardhan Koushik

Janardhan Koushik is Deputy Copy Editor of indianexpress.com. He is a New Media journalist with over five years of reporting experience in the industry. He has a keen interest in politics, sports, films, and other civic issues. Janardhan holds a Bachelor’s degree in Visual Communication from SRM Arts and Science College and a PG Diploma in New Media from Asian College of Journalism, one of the top ranked journalism schools in India. He started his career with India Today group as a sub-editor as part of the sports team in 2016. He has also a wide experience as a script-writer having worked for short-films, pilot films as well as a radio jockey cum show producer while contributing for an online Tamil FM. As a multilingual journalist, he actively tracks the latest development in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry utiling his well-established networks to contribute significantly to breaking news stories. He has also worked as a sports analyst for Star Sports. ... Read More

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