What's really happening with young students in Uttar Pradesh, why young students of different communities are encouraged by teachers to be slapped by other students of other communities?

Well, this incident happened for the second time in the stage of Uttar Pradesh which has both Hindu and Muslim population.

What happened was, a school teacher at a private school in Sambhal district was arrested by Uttar Pradesh Police on Thursday after she allegedly ordered a Muslim student to slap a Hindu classmate for not answering a question.

The case was registered at the Asmoli police station under Sections 323 (voluntarily causing hurt) and 153-A (promoting enmity between different sections on the basis of religion) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). The case was filed against the teacher named Shaista on the complaint of the student’s father.

In his application, the victim’s father alleged that his son, a Class 5 student, was slapped by a Muslim student at the behest of the teacher. The father said the feelings of his son was hurt due to the incident.

A similar incident that occurred last month in Khubbapur village of Muzaffarnagar, a private school teacher had ordered classmates to slap a Muslim boy after he did not complete his homework.

This kind of incidents are really worrisome and also promotes communal enmity in the state.

But aren't teachers supposed to be the ones who teach us good values and lessons of life, but is it the kind of teachers we are supposed to have as mentors?