Outrage in India over death of six-year-old ‘slapped’ by his teacher
Andhra Pradesh’s regional minister of education says he is taking legal action with a committee against those responsible. Authorities in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh have launched an investigation after a six-year-old child collapsed and reportedly died after he was slapped by his teacher in a school classroom.
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- Fact 1: “In the morning around 8am, my son woke up and said he wanted to go to school.
- Fact 2: Police Inspector Pudi Vara Prasad told Press Trust of India: “Following a written complaint from the boy’s father, we have registered a case under Section 194 of the BNSS and launched an investigation.” Prasad said the body was handed over to his parents after police “completed the inquest and post-mortem procedures”.
- Fact 3: A 2018 study by the Indian NGO Agrasar found that roughly 80 percent of low-income school children in India experience corporal punishment from teachers, despite it being officially illegal.
Andhra Pradesh’s regional minister of education says he is taking legal action with a committee against those responsible. Authorities in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh have launched an investigation after a six-year-old child collapsed and reportedly died after he was slapped by his teacher in a school classroom.
The incident was captured on a security camera in the school in Visakhapatnam in the southeast Indian state, before being shared widely by local media on Thursday. The incident is already causing an uproar around corporal punishment in the country. Indian PM Modi warns about left-wing activists in Independence Day speech Sedition to anthem: Many lives of ‘Azadi’ chants in India’s youth protests Will India’s ‘Cockroach’ movement force Modi’s BJP to rethink its politics?
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Original source: Al Jazeera
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