At least three girls of a school in Jhabua district of Madhya Pradesh were slapped by their fellow students allegedly 168 times as part of punishment given by a science teacher for failing to complete their homework.
The Jawahar Navodaya Residential School, situated in Thandla tehsil, described it as a ‘friendly punishment’ meted out by the fellow students as ‘teachers are not allowed to give corporal punishment. Police is in a quandary on whether to book the teacher or the students and were in the process of discussing the matter with government lawyers to chalk out further course of action on a complaint lodged by the father of one of the victims.
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