Muzaffarnagar School Where Teacher Asked Students To Slap Muslim Classmate Remains Shut For Day 3

The school in Muzaffarnagar’s Khabbupur village, where a Muslim student was slapped by his classmates as per the directions of their teacher, continued to remain shut for the third day.

The private school in Muzaffarnagar’s Khabbupur village of Uttar Pradesh, where a Muslim student was slapped by his classmates on the instructions given by a female teacher, continued to remain shut for three consecutive days until Monday. The school management said the reason for not opening the institute was that they were very busy in responding to the show cause notice served to them by the education department over the school's affiliation, reported news agency PTI. This comes after a video of teacher Tripta Tyagi went viral on social media platforms last Friday, in which she was asking students of Class II to slap their Muslim classmate for allegedly not doing his homework. 

A widespread condemnation and a massive controversy erupted on the widely circulated video. Meanwhile, the school also said a large number of people were continuously visiting the institute.

Uttar Pradesh government's Basic Shiksha Adhikari Shubham Shukla commented on the matter and said that the school was served a show cause notice on Saturday. He added that the institute was also asked to submit its reply on Monday on the issue of its affiliation, PTI reported.

He also said the school was given government affiliation for a period of three years in 2019, which expired last year. However, the management did not try for its renewal after that. The BSA has already said the said school will not be closed and normal teaching activities will continue there in the interests of students until an alternate arrangement is made for them.

Notably, a case was registered against Tyagi on Saturday under sections 323 (punishment for voluntarily causing hurt) and 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace) of the Indian Penal Code on the complaint of the victim's family.

Meanwhile, Tyagi, in her defence, said the video had been tampered with to give a communal colour to the matter and said that it was shot by the student's uncle. But she agreed to the fact that she asked students to slap their classmate, which was wrong. However, Tyagi said she allowed that as she was physically challenged and was not able to stand up and reach the student.