SHIMLA: A teacher ordered a student to slap her classmates for writing wrong answers. The incident happened on Monday at a government girls’ school at Shimla in Himachal Pradesh. The police registered a case against the teacher on the complaint of a ten-year-old student. The complaint was lodged by the student, who had to slap the students as per the order of the teacher.

The incident happened on Monday afternoon. The teacher had asked the students to memorize the meanings of some Sanskrit words. The girl, who is also the class monitor, wrote the correct answers. However, twelve children got some answers wrong. With this, the teacher ordered the class leader to beat them.

The child, despite following the teacher's instructions, beat her classmates softly. With this, the angry teacher hit the class leader. 'You are the class leader, don't you even know how to hit hard', she scolded. The student said that she had to beat the other two girls who wrote down the correct answers as per the teacher's request.

The complainant said the teacher's behavior scared her. The student stated in her complaint that the teacher often says, ‘You can say whatever you want to your parents, no one can do anything to me.’ The police said they would take further action after taking statements from other children.