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NEW DELHI, Sept 30: A seven-year-old girl was made to strip naked by her teacher
in a New Delhi school for not completing her homework, a police spokesman said
on Sunday.
The minor was made to strip completely naked and stand on a desk in her class on
Friday while other students were asked to boo her, the officer said.
“The teacher was arrested on a complaint by the parents but she has been
released as it was a bailable offence,” Rajan Bhagat told Reuters over the
telephone.
“This is barbaric,” Shanta Sinha, head of the National Commission for Protection
of Child Rights, said in a newspaper report. “No one has the right to outrage
the modesty of a child.”
The commission had issued a directive this year barring schools from calling
students “stupid” or “mindless”.
Although banned, corporal punishment is widely used to discipline children in
Indian schools.—Reuters
