The student took aim once, twice, before hitting his friend, damaging his eardrum. (CNN-News18 photo)

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Updated on: September 7, 2017, 9:27 PM IST

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New Delhi: The social media theatrics can bring you popularity as also outrage, depending on the act one posts on the platform. A video, now going viral on social media, shows a school student slapping his classmate across the cheek at the Pathways School, Noida.

The group, comprising at least four students caught on camera, giggled, while one of them took aim once, twice, before thrashing his colleague, apparently to share the video on Snapchat. In the process, however, the student ended up damaging the eardrum.


The student who smacked his friend has been suspended for a month, while his colleagues, the other two, were suspended for two weeks. The parents were asked not to go to the police. Hence, no FIR has been lodged as yet.

Pathways School, Noida, reacted after the video made its way to social media, saying, “This is a rather unfortunate incident. However, this is not a bullying incident. It is the outcome of a consensual peer 'slap bet' episode that a few Pathways School Noida students had between themselves. Pathways School Noida has been swift in responding to the situation and has taken appropriate action with involvement of parents of the students involved.”