Uttar Pradesh school teacher thrashes Class-2 student for not sweeping the floor

An incident of a school teacher beating a student has come to limelight as the teacher forcibly asked Deepak, a Class 2 student, to sweep the floor and when the cleaning did not go so well, the teacher beat him up. The teacher did not calm down after beating him up, he pushed the student due to which he fell on a bench and suffered serious injury to his eye.

The incident happened at Ganauli Primary school in Patranga village of Ayodhya district. Deepak's family members approached the Patranga police after the incident and have filed a complaint against the accused. The police registered a case against the teacher and said that at present, the accused is out of their grip.

The police said that they have formed a team to investigate the matter and are on the lookout of the accused who is absconding.

The incident happened at Ganauli Primary school in Patranga village of Ayodhya district.

Meanwhile, in another instance, a teacher of a primary school in Mahmudabad was suspended after a purported video of him smoking inside the classroom went viral on social media.

"Video of teacher smoking inside the classroom had gone viral on social media. I had sent the division education officer to the school to confirm the identity of the teacher. After his face matched with the person in the video, I suspended him," District Basic Education Officer Ajay Kumar said.

Kumar said that teachers shouldn't smoke at all inside classrooms. "Teachers have a huge impact on students. They shouldn't smoke at all," he added. In the video that went viral, the teacher was seen lighting and smoking a beedi (hand-rolled cigarette) inside a classroom full of primary students