Lodge FIR against UP teacher who got kids to hit Muslim student, NCPCR directs Muzaffarnagar SSP

The teacher, in the purported video, is seen referring to the student’s Muslim faith, and talking pejoratively about “Mohammedan children” – ostensibly because he got his multiplication tables wrong.

Taking suo motu cognizance of the issue based on the video, the NCPCR has said that the “minor student has been seen subjected to physical and mental harassment in a school situated in district Muzaffarnagar.’’

“Prima facie it is observed that there is a contravention of Section 17 of the Right to Education Act, 2009 and Section 75 of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015,’’ the Commission has said.

Section 75 of the JJ Act says that “if such an offence is committed by any person employed by or managing an organisation, which is entrusted with the care and protection of the child, he shall be punished with rigorous imprisonment which may extend up to five years, and fine which may extend up to five lakh rupees’’.

The Commission has further said that since the child, who had been harassed, and the other children involved are in need of protection, both the victim as well as the other children in the class be produced before the Child Welfare Committee and that all the children be provided “necessary counselling”.

The commission has asked the DM to furnish information on whether the school is recognised or not, and to submit a certificate of recognition. It has also asked the officer to furnish details on the total number of children enrolled in the school, the total number of teachers and their qualifications and whether any orientation or training has been conducted for the teachers on child rights in the past five years.

The incident took place at Neha Public School on Thursday in Khubbapur village under the jurisdiction of Mansurpur police station where the teacher Tripta Tyagi ordered students to step up to the victim and slap him.