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NAVI MUMBAI: Khandeshwar police registered an FIR against a 25-year-old teacher of a private high school in Sector 7, New Panvel, after the father of a 10-year-old Std V student lodged a police complaint on Monday alleging that she slapped his son as a punishment. The boy suffered a swelling behind his left ear due to the slap, he said. The boy told his father he was punished by his Hindi teacher for talking to a classmate while she was teaching. The father works with BEST Undertaking, while his mother is a nurse.

Police said he got his son treated at a private clinic and then approached the Raigad district child protection officer. Both then registered the FIR. The father said, “After registering the FIR, the teacher visited our house and pleaded for forgiveness. She requested us to withdraw the police complaint and claimed she had lost her job. As she sincerely apologised , I forgave her. On Thursday, I went to the Panvel court and submitted an application to quash the FIR.”

Senior inspector Yogesh More said, “The teacher has been booked under Section 23 of Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act for cruelty to a juvenile/child. She was not arrested. We will file a charge-sheet in two days.”

The principal said, “Such incidents are taken very seriously, we have a zero-tolerance policy. We are investigating the incident. Until the investigation is completed, the teacher has been told not to attend school. We have issued her a show-cause notice.”

In July, a 25-year-old teacher was arrested by Kalamboli police for shaming a six-year-old student of the school’s branch in Kalamboli. The teacher had allegedly stripped him for whistling in class. The court granted bail to the teacher.

