16-year-old student, Suhail Ansari of Oxford High School, was hospitalised after he was allegedly beaten up by his school teacher for not possessing an Aadhaar card.

The teacher, identified as Shyam Bahadur Vishwakarma, has been arrested by the police, reported ANI.

Vishwakarma denied the charges when the student’s brother confronted him, but the CCTV footage later made it clear that Suhail was indeed hit with a stick.

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The teacher allegedly hit the student on his head, where he already had an injury, and the latter fell unconscious on the way to Sion Hospital in Mumbai. A case was filed at the Ghatkopar police station under sections 323, 324 and 375 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) on the basis of the CCTV footage and after the parents of the student lodged a complaint.