BAREILLY: Slapping a boy 67 times has cost a teacher here his job. The incident has caused a massive outrage with the teacher’s association demanding his arrest.

A teacher in a local public school, Amit Singh Rohilla , was sacked by school authorities after he was accused by a student and his parents for slapping him repeatedly for not completing his homework on time. The student of Class VII was slapped while the rest of his classmates were mute spectators to the incident. Some of them counted the number of times he was hit and said he was slapped some 67 times.

However, the incident did not come to light as the schoolboy chose to remain silent for almost 13 days. The boy identified as Vansh is the son of a local jeweller, Deepak Agarwal. He attends a local school in Quila locality.

Vansh finally broke his silence and disclosed the incident to a friend. The friend, in turn, brought the matter to the notice of the victim’s parents. His shocked parents accompanied by an office-bearer of the parents association approached the school authorities with a complaint against the teacher. The school principal sacked the teacher.

According to reports, Rohilla reportedly asked Vansh about his Maths homework but the latter expressed inability to complete the same due to unknown reasons.

This teacher lost his cool and allegedly slapped the boy mercilessly in front of the whole class. Rohilla also twisted Vansh’s fingers, leaving him writhing in pain.

Fearing a backlash from the teacher, Vansh preferred to keep the incident under wraps. When his parents asked about his swollen fingers, he passed it off as a routine injury.

But few days later, he spilled the beans to his best friend.

His parents along with an office-bearer of the Parents and Guardian Association, Ankur Saxena, went to the school and brought the matter to the notice of the principal. The latter summoned fellow students of the victim. His classmates corroborated the statement of the boy. Thereafter, the school authorities removed the guilty teacher with immediate effect. The boy’s parents wanted to file a police complaint against the teacher but the school authorities dissuaded them.

Talking to TOI, a school teacher, Deepak Gupta, said, “Perhaps, the count of slaps appears to be too many, and, if the boy had complaints, he should have brought this to our notice earlier. But now the matter stands closed as the guilty teacher has been terminated from service”.

Talking to mediapersons, the accused teacher said, “I was peeved at the behavior of the boy who instead of listening to my instructions tried to pass it as a joke which angered me.”

