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- The teacher asks the students to slap their Muslim classmate
- Tripta Tyagi is the principal of Neha Public School in Muzaffarnagar
- An FIR was registered against the accused teacher
New Delhi:
A case has been registered against a school teacher in Uttar Pradesh who was seen in a viral video asking students to slap their Muslim classmate. Following this incident, there has been a lot of anger among the people. In the viral video, teacher Tripta Tyagi, who is also the principal of Neha Public School in Muzaffarnagar, was seen making communal remarks while asking students to slap a 7-year-old boy. While the child was shedding tears helplessly.
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The teacher justified his action
However, Tripta Tyagi says she is not “ashamed” of her heinous act. Tyagi told NDTV, “I am not ashamed. I have served the people of this village as a teacher. They are all with me.” The teacher justified her action by saying that it was necessary to “control” the children in the school.
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— NDTV India (@CMB Collegeindia) August 26, 2023
The controversy over the viral video was dismissed as a “minor issue”.
Tripta Tyagi said, “They have made the law, but we need to control children in schools. This is how we deal with them.” Earlier, he had dismissed the viral video controversy as a ‘minor issue’. She said, “It was not my intention. I accept my mistake, but it was unnecessarily made a big issue.”
A senior police officer claimed that after an investigation, he found that the teacher had said, “Muslim children whose mothers do not pay attention to their children’s education, their education is completely ruined.”
At the same time, Muzaffarnagar District Magistrate Arvind Malappa Bangari said that an FIR has been registered against the teacher.