Muzaffarnagar school slap video: SC raps Uttar Pradesh govt, says ‘should shock conscience of state’
Live Law. The case was being heard by Supreme Court bench of Justices Abhay S Oka and Justice Pankaj Mithal.
The bench of justices directed the Uttar Pradesh government to appoint a senior IPS officer to probe the case, terming the incident as "serious". The Supreme Court on Monday pulled up the Uttar Pradesh government for a shoddy probe into a case lodged in Muzaffarnagar against a woman teacher, who allegedly encouraged her students to slap a Muslim classmate and made communal remarks at a private school, directs an IPS officer to monitor and submit reports.
The court also sought a report from the Uttar Pradesh government on the implementation of the Right To Education Act or RTE in the state, besides ensuring proper counselling for the victim child and other students involved in the incident. A bench of Justices Abhay S Oka and Pankaj Mithal directed the Uttar Pradesh government to appoint a senior IPS officer to probe the case, terming the incident as "serious".
Directing that the IPS officer shall file a report in the apex court, the bench asked the state government to conduct counselling of the victim and other students, who were involved in the case, by professional counsellors. It said there is a prima facie case of failure on the part of the Uttar Pradesh government in complying with the provisions of the RTE Act, which deals with providing quality, free and compulsory education to children up to 14 years, without any discrimination on the basis of caste, creed or gender.
The bench asked the state government to furnish a status report on implementation of the RTE Act in schools across the state in four weeks, while terming the incident as "serious". It was hearing a plea filed by Tushar Gandhi, the
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