Bengaluru Schoolteacher Hits Student With Stick And Breaks His Tooth, Booked: Report

The enraged teacher, first warned the students with the stick but ultimately hit the boy with the stick, breaking his tooth. 

A private school teacher has been booked for allegedly hitting an 11-year-old student with a cane and breaking his tooth in Bengaluru’s Jayanagar in Karnataka. The incident occurred at Holy Christ English School, the student and his classmates were playing with water filled up in glue bottles, and some of it accidentally fell on the teacher, Asmat, as she was entering the class. 

Enraged Asmat, first warned the students with the stick but ultimately hit the boy with the stick, breaking his tooth. 

According to The Times Of India, a complaint was filed by the boy’s father, based on which Asmat has been booked under relevant sections of the Justice to Juvenile Act as well as BNS Section 122 (offence of causing hurt or grievous hurt in response to grave and sudden provocation).

The boy’s father reportedly said that his son had approached the teacher to raise concern about his classmates’ behaviour. But instead of addressing his complaint, the teacher allegedly hit the boy with the cane, which caused his tooth to break, according to a Hindustan Times (HT) report. The father also alleged that the school management tried to “settle” this matter privately to try and persuade him not to file a police report.

Meanwhile, Asmat has claimed that this was all accidental. She claimed that she didn’t intend to hit the boy but his face was too close that when she raised the stick to warn and control the students, it struck his face, as per the HT report.

‘His Face Hit The Table’

Meanwhile, Arpita VL, head of the school administration, dismissed the allegations and said that the boy broke his tooth while trying to run away from the beatings, fell and his face hit a table. When asked what permitted them from beating the student, Arpita retorted, "Why is everyone questioning us? Aren't we supposed to react when students do wrong things? Should we keep quiet if students rag us? Where is this generation heading? I don't know," according to a TOI report.

Though Arpita said that Asmath was holding a broken scale, the evidence police collected was the stick, wrapped in cellophane tape and the student’s tooth.