ALWAR: A teacher was suspended and booked on Tuesday as her 12-year-old student died 10 days after she had forced her to contort her body as punishment for not answering a question in Rajasthan's Alwar district last week.

Kalpana Kumari Meena's family alleged that Komal Devi had asked another girl to sit on her back to prevent her from getting up from 'murga' position. She fainted and was rushed to a hospital, where she passed away.

Kalpana was a class VII student and had been living at Kasturba Gandhi Residential Girls School 's hostel for two years.

Station house officer Ramroop Meena said the girl's uncle Babulal Meena lodged an FIR with the police on March 17 and they are investigating the matter. "We are yet to arrest the teacher."

A Rajasthan State Commission for Protection of Child Rights recorded statements of Kalpana's classmates on Tuesday as part of its investigations into the matter.

The alleged corporal punishment case comes about four months after Pia Chaudhary, 9, died after her teacher had reportedly beaten her in Jhunjhunu.