A school teacher in UP’s Sambhal was arrested for inciting communal hatred after she ordered a Muslim boy to slap his fellow Hindu classmate for not answering a question, PTI reported. The incident took place in Dugawar village at a private school. On cognisance of the complaint filed by the father of the boy, the school teacher, Shaista, was booked under IPC Sections 153A (promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion, race, etc.) and 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), the news agency quoted Additional SP Shrish Chandra as saying.

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The official said the teacher was arrested. In his complaint, the boy’s father said his son, who is a Class 5 student, was slapped by a Muslim boy after the teacher asked the latter to do so. This hurt his son’s religious feelings.

A mayhem was witnessed days back when a lady teacher in UP’s Muzaffarnagar made her students repeatedly slap their Muslim classmate. The video of the incident went fervidly viral.

A video of the student being slapped by his fellow classmates perpetually, at the direction of their teacher, went fervidly viral across social media platforms late last month.Video grab- X/@binshad_ameer

Opposition political parties slammed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over the outrageous video. They alleged that the BJP's "politics of hatred" was responsible for the incident.  

The lady teacher, Tripta Tyagi, was booked under Sections 323 (causing hurt) and 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of peace) of the IPC.

Besides, the education department of the Uttar Pradesh government served a notice to the primary school alleging that it didn’t fulfil the required operational criteria.  

Tyagi, however, claimed that the video, which surfaced on social media, was edited.

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The Supreme Court on Monday took cognisance of the matter and instructed the UP government to appoint a senior IPS officer to investigate the case. The court expressed serious concern and dissatisfaction with the previous investigation.