NEW DELHI: Actor Prakash Raj strongly criticized the incident of UP school students made to slap their classmate on the face by their teacher. The actor wrote on social media 'The darkest side of HUMANITY we are getting into..' and asked arent you worried? Apart from Prakash Raj, screenwriter Javed Akhtar, Bollywood stars like Swara Bhaskar, Renuka Shahane, Swastika Mukherjee and others also criticized the incident.

The darkest side of HUMANITY we are getting into.. arent you worried #justasking pic.twitter.com/i5ilnujEmo

— Prakash Raj (@prakashraaj) August 25, 2023

The shocking incident took place in a school in Muzaffarnagar, Uttar Pradesh. The police came to know about the incident when the footage of the incident went viral on social media. In the video, the teacher asks the children to hit the student repeatedly and tells them to hit the boy on the hip. Muzaffarnagar police registered a case on the complaint of the child's father.

At the same time, the teacher Tripta Tyagi clarified that her action was not of a communal nature and that she asked the boy's classmates to slap the child because he did not memorize the multiplication table. "The child's parents have told me to be strict with him. I am disabled. That's why I told the other students to slap him,' said the teacher.

She also claimed that the video was edited. 'The boy's relative was sitting in the class. The video was recorded by him. It was twisted later.' Tyagi said.