Muzaffarnagar Student Slapping Case | Authorities Not Acknowledging Problem Of Religious Discrimination: PIL Petitioner Tells Supreme Court
3 weeks, 3 days ago

Muzaffarnagar Student Slapping Case | Authorities Not Acknowledging Problem Of Religious Discrimination: PIL Petitioner Tells Supreme Court

Live Law  

Senior Advocate Shadan Farasat told the Supreme Court on Thursday that while Rule 5 of Uttar Pradesh RTE Rules, 2011 exists to protect children against religious discrimination in school, the authorities are not acknowledging the problem and addressing it. A bench of Justice Abhay Oka and Justice Augustine George Masih was hearing a PIL filed by activist Tushar Gandhi concerning the Muzaffarnagar student slapping case and the implementation of the Right to Education Act, 2009. Third, the chargesheet filed in the case, which Farasat claimed doesn't seem to invoke the second proviso to Section 75 of the Juvenile Justice Act as previously directed by the court. The Court directed Additional Advocate General Garima Prashad of Uttar Pradesh to appear on the next date and ensure the release of travel reimbursements to the child's father before the next hearing.

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Muzaffarnagar School Slapping | No Quality Education If Students Aren't Taught Values Of Equality, Secularism & Fraternity: Supreme Court
1 week, 4 days ago

Muzaffarnagar School Slapping | No Quality Education If Students Aren't Taught Values Of Equality, Secularism & Fraternity: Supreme Court

Live Law  

The Supreme Court on Thursday underscored the significance of inculcating constitutional values such as equality, secularism, and fraternity in students while dealing with a PIL filed by activist Tushar Gandhi concerning the 2023 Muzaffarnagar student slapping incident. In the September 2023 order, the Court had observed : "When the object of the RTE Act is to provide quality education, unless …

Muzaffarnagar Student Slapping Case | Allahabad High Court Refuses Anticipatory Bail To Accused-Teacher
2 weeks, 4 days ago

Muzaffarnagar Student Slapping Case | Allahabad High Court Refuses Anticipatory Bail To Accused-Teacher

Live Law  

The Allahabad High Court denied anticipatory bail to a 60-year-old teacher and principal of Muzaffarnagar's Neha Public School, who has been accused of asking her students to slap a Muslim student and uttering communal slurs against him. A bench of Justice Deepak Verma, however, directed no coercive action against her for two weeks or until she surrenders before the concerned …

Muzaffarnagar Student Slapping Case| Supreme Court Asks UP Govt To Find Sponsor For Victim Child's School Expenditures
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Muzaffarnagar Student Slapping Case| Supreme Court Asks UP Govt To Find Sponsor For Victim Child's School Expenditures

Live Law  

The Supreme Court today, while hearing the Muzaffarnagar student slapping case, categorically told the State of Uttar Pradesh to find someone who can sponsor the school education of the victim child. Somebody must come forward and say that they will take care of the child entire expenditure till school education comes to an end. Further, Prasad also informed the Court …

Shocking Incident in Motihari: Teacher Caught with Minor Girl, Faces Public Outrage
5 months, 1 week ago

Shocking Incident in Motihari: Teacher Caught with Minor Girl, Faces Public Outrage

News 18  

In a disturbing incident from Ghorasahan block of Motihari district in Bihar, a government school teacher has been accused of misconduct with a minor student, leading to public uproar and swift action from authorities. Reports indicate that locals, upon learning of the situation, surrounded the teacher and the girl at a camp outside Ghorasahan, where the teacher used to take …

UP: Muslim student expelled by school over a visit from a Hindu student
6 months, 3 weeks ago

UP: Muslim student expelled by school over a visit from a Hindu student

Op India  

A Muslim student named Manvvar in Uttar Pradesh’s Muzaffarnagar has charged that he was expelled from school because he has a Hindu friend and disclosed that he received a harsh reprimand for the same. According to the information, Manvvar a student of Vision International Academy located in Fulat, Muzaffarnagar faced eviction from the school after he met a Hindu boy. …

Muzaffarnagar Student Slapping Case: Supreme Court Asks UP Govt To Nominate Senior IPS Officer To Ensure Proper Prosecution
7 months, 1 week ago

Muzaffarnagar Student Slapping Case: Supreme Court Asks UP Govt To Nominate Senior IPS Officer To Ensure Proper Prosecution

Live Law  

The Supreme Court, while hearing Muzaffarnagar student slapping case, directed the State of Uttar Pradesh to nominate an appropriate senior IPS officer for conducting the prosecution properly.The Bench of Justices Abhay S. Oka and Ujjal Bhuyan passed this order after Additional Solicitor General N. Venkataraman informed that the chargesheet in this case had. The Supreme Court, while hearing Muzaffarnagar student …

Muzaffarnagar School Slapping Case | What Steps Taken To Prosecute Offender? Supreme Court Asks UP Govt
8 months, 1 week ago

Muzaffarnagar School Slapping Case | What Steps Taken To Prosecute Offender? Supreme Court Asks UP Govt

Live Law  

The Supreme Court on Monday asked the State of Uttar Pradesh about the steps taken to prosecute the offender in the Muzaffarnagar school slapping case. The case related to the alleged incident where a teacher at a school in Muzaffarnagar asked her students to slap a student and allegedly uttered communal slurs against him.The Court asked Additional Advocate General Garima …

SC asks State Government to clarify measures taken to prosecute teacher - The Hindu
8 months, 1 week ago

SC asks State Government to clarify measures taken to prosecute teacher - The Hindu

The Hindu  

The Supreme Court on April 15 asked the Uttar Pradesh government to clarify measures taken to prosecute a school teacher in Muzaffarnagar who goaded the classmates of a seven-year-old Muslim boy to slap him repeatedly while making communal remarks. Right to Education Act The court has consistently blamed the State government for its failure to provide a safe environment, recognised …

Muzaffarnagar Student Slapping Case : After Supreme Court Rebuke, Uttar Pradesh Govt Complies With TISS Recommendations On Counselling
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Muzaffarnagar Student Slapping Case : After Supreme Court Rebuke, Uttar Pradesh Govt Complies With TISS Recommendations On Counselling

Live Law  

In the latest development in the Muzaffarnagar student slapping case, the State of Uttar Pradesh on Friday informed the Supreme Court that it has complied with the recommendations made by the Tata Institute of Social Studies on counselling the other children involved in the incident. In a scathing order passed in November last year, the court had pulled up the …

Child slapping incident: SC to examine implementation of Right to Education in Uttar Pradesh on March 15
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Child slapping incident: SC to examine implementation of Right to Education in Uttar Pradesh on March 15

The Hindu  

The Uttar Pradesh government on Friday informed the Supreme Court that child rights protection agencies like Childline, Muskan, and HAQ have been roped in to provide counselling to a seven-year-old Muslim child who was repeatedly slapped by his classmates on the orders of their teacher at a Muzaffarnagar private school. Appearing before a Bench headed by Justice A.S. Oka, Uttar …

Muzaffarnagar Student Slapping Case | 'Uttar Pradesh Govt Failed To Act In Manner Expected After Incident' : Supreme Court
11 months, 1 week ago

Muzaffarnagar Student Slapping Case | 'Uttar Pradesh Govt Failed To Act In Manner Expected After Incident' : Supreme Court

Live Law  

In the latest development in the Muzaffarnagar student slapping case, the Supreme Court on Friday orally remarked that the state government had not acted in the manner expected after the incident. During the last hearing, the court had asked the state government to submit an affidavit on how it intended on implementing recommendations by the Tata Institute of Social Sciences …

Muzaffarnagar Student Slapping | 'Why Appoint A Committee For This?' Supreme Court Directs UP Govt To Facilitate Victim's Admission To Private School
1 year, 1 month ago

Muzaffarnagar Student Slapping | 'Why Appoint A Committee For This?' Supreme Court Directs UP Govt To Facilitate Victim's Admission To Private School

Live Law  

In the latest development in the Muzaffarnagar student slapping case, the Supreme Court on Monday questioned the necessity of a committee proposed to be constituted by the Uttar Pradesh government to facilitate the victim's admission to a private school. On the last occasion, the court mulled over the idea of appointing an expert agency working in the field of child …

Muzaffarnagar School Slapping | 'Child Is So Traumatised; You Expect Him To Come To Counselling Centre' : Supreme Court To UP Education Dept
1 year, 1 month ago

Muzaffarnagar School Slapping | 'Child Is So Traumatised; You Expect Him To Come To Counselling Centre' : Supreme Court To UP Education Dept

Live Law  

The Supreme Court on Monday mulled over the idea of appointing an expert agency working in the field of child welfare to visit the victim of the Muzaffarnagar student slapping case and provide counselling to him in his home, after being informed that he was badly traumatised from the incident. The court also expressed dissatisfaction over the state government insisting …

Muzaffarnagar rerun: Teacher asks Muslim student to slap Hindu classmate in UP, arrested
1 year, 2 months ago

Muzaffarnagar rerun: Teacher asks Muslim student to slap Hindu classmate in UP, arrested

Hindustan Times  

In a similar incident to the Muzaffarnagar school row, a school teacher in Uttar Pradesh's Sambhal was arrested on Thursday for allegedly instructing a Class 5 Muslim student to slap a Hindu classmate as a punishment for not answering a question, news agency PTI reported citing the police. A police official said the victim's father lodged a complaint saying that …

Muzaffarnagar slapping case: SC questions quality of school education in U.P., points to ‘watered-down’ FIR against teacher
1 year, 2 months ago

Muzaffarnagar slapping case: SC questions quality of school education in U.P., points to ‘watered-down’ FIR against teacher

The Hindu  

A “watered-down” and delayed First Information Report against a Muzaffarnagar school teacher, shown on video showering communal remarks on her seven-year-old Muslim student and goading his classmates to thrash him, raised questions in the Supreme Court about religious discrimination and quality of education in Uttar Pradesh. Justice Oka pointed out that the FIR registered after a “long delay” by the …

U.P. student slap case | SC seeks status report on investigation, issues notice to State
1 year, 3 months ago

U.P. student slap case | SC seeks status report on investigation, issues notice to State

The Hindu  

The Supreme Court on September 6 issued notice on a plea by activist Tushar Gandhi for a time-bound investigation into a video that allegedly shows a Muslim student being slapped by his classmates on the instructions of his teacher. The top court also issued notice to the Uttar Pradesh Government and sought its reply by September 25. The Muzaffarnagar Police …

In hateful rant, Delhi school teacher derides Muslim students
1 year, 3 months ago

In hateful rant, Delhi school teacher derides Muslim students

Hindustan Times  

The Delhi government’s flagship “Deshbhakti” curriculum, meant to promote feelings of unity and national integration, has been hailed as a progressive step in the Capital’s school system. And yet, 33-year-old Hema Gulati, who taught the Deshbhakti curriculum in a Delhi government school in Kailash Nagar is in the eye of the storm after unleashing a hateful rant against Muslims and …

Delhi govt. school teacher booked over ‘slur’ against students
1 year, 3 months ago

Delhi govt. school teacher booked over ‘slur’ against students

The Hindu  

The Delhi Police on Tuesday, August 29, 2023 filed a case against a government school teacher for allegedly using derogatory "religious words" against a few students. According to Deputy Commissioner of Police of Shahdara, Rohit Meena the police received a complaint about a school teacher using some religious words in front of students. The development follows the outrage over a …

Muzaffarnagar slap row: Muslim student taken to Meerut for checkup; likely to be admitted to govt. school for studies
1 year, 3 months ago

Muzaffarnagar slap row: Muslim student taken to Meerut for checkup; likely to be admitted to govt. school for studies

The Hindu  

The Muslim student, who was slapped by his classmates following the orders of a school teacher in Muzaffarnagar, was taken to Meerut on August 27 for a medical checkup after he complained of being disturbed and not able to sleep last night. He became disturbed due to several people including reporters asking him about the Neha Public School incident,” Irshad, …

UP slap row: Officials to aid admission of Muslim student to government school
1 year, 3 months ago

UP slap row: Officials to aid admission of Muslim student to government school

India Today  

A Muslim student, who was slapped by his classmates following the orders of a school teacher in Muzaffarnagar, will be admitted to a government primary school provided his family agrees to it, officials of the education department said on Sunday. The department will also facilitate the transfer of other students studying at Neha Public School in Khabbupur village where the …

Muzaffarnagar slap row: Muslim student unable to sleep, taken to Meerut for checkup
1 year, 3 months ago

Muzaffarnagar slap row: Muslim student unable to sleep, taken to Meerut for checkup

India Today  

The Muslim student, who was slapped by his classmates following the orders of a school teacher in Muzaffarnagar, was taken to Meerut on Sunday for a medical checkup after he complained of being disturbed and not able to sleep last night. He became disturbed due to several people including reporters asking him about the Neha Public School incident," Irshad, father …

Owaisi questions UP govt on Muslim boy assault in school
1 year, 3 months ago

Owaisi questions UP govt on Muslim boy assault in school

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi on Saturday indirectly blamed the BJP for an incident in communally sensitive Muzaffarnagar of Uttar Pradesh, where a teacher was seen asking her students to slap a Muslim boy, calling it “a product of last nine years”. Taking to social media, Owaisi posted: “The message being drilled into the minds of little children is that …

UP school teacher booked as clip of students beating Muslim child sparks fury
1 year, 3 months ago

UP school teacher booked as clip of students beating Muslim child sparks fury

Live Mint  

An Uttar Pradesh school teacher was booked on Saturday after ordering her students to slap their Muslim classmate. The video in question shows Tripta Tyagi making a communal remark and asking her students to slap the Class 2 boy. The incident took place at Neha Public School in Muzaffarnagar's Khubbapur village and has since grabbed eyeballs across India and beyond. …

Teacher in Uttar Pradesh’s Muzaffarnagar urges students to slap Muslim student in school
1 year, 3 months ago

Teacher in Uttar Pradesh’s Muzaffarnagar urges students to slap Muslim student in school

The Hindu  

A first information report was registered on Saturday against Tripta Tyagi, a private school teacher who allegedly asked students to hit their seven-year-old Muslim classmate at Khubbapur village in Muzaffarnagar district of Uttar Pradesh. ‘Hit harder’ In the viral video, the teacher can be heard telling one of the students, “Aey kya tum maar rahe ho iske, jor se maaro …

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