Muzaffarnagar school video: Teacher Tripti Tyagi says, 'Not ashamed…important to control kids'

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NDTV, Tyagi said, she has served the people of the village as a teacher and added, it is important to "control" kids at school. "I am not ashamed. I have served the people of this village as a teacher.

They all are with me," the channel quoted Tyagi who is a principal of Neha Public School. The teacher added, "They have made laws, but we need to control the children in schools. This is how we tackle them".

Also read: Muzzafarnagar school incident: Child says 'was slapped for over an hour because...' Earlier Tyagi acknowledged her mistake and had told media, " This wasn't my intention. I am accepting my mistake, but this was unnecessarily turned into a big issue". Tyagi said though it was wrong on her part to get a student slapped by his classmates, she was forced to do it as she is handicapped and was not able to stand up and reach the student who had not done his assignment.

The Muslim boy, who was severely beaten by classmates, his family has filed an FIR against teacher Tyagi. The police have registered a complaint of the boy's family under IPC sections 323 (punishment for voluntarily causing hurt) and 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace) -- both non-cognisable offences. Such offences are bailable and do not lead to immediate arrest, and require a warrant.

According to NDTV's new report, the father of the victim said, "My nephew made the video, he had gone to school for some work... My seven-year-old was tortured for an hour or two. He is scared.

This is not a Hindu-Muslim issue. We want the law to take its own course," and added, "My son is traumatised and shocked". Basic Shiksha Adhikari (BSA) of Muzaffarnagar Shubham Shukla said a show cause notice has been served to the school