A teacher has been booked for allegedly making derogatory remarks against a community in a classroom in east Delhi's Gandhi Nagar. Four students reportedly alleged that the teacher asked them why their families did not go to Pakistan during Partition. The incident comes on the heels of outrage over a horrific video that showed a Muslim student being slapped by fellow students on the direction of their teacher.
A parent of one of the students who studies in the school, demanded that the teacher be removed and that she should not go unpunished. "If the teacher goes unpunished, other teachers will get emboldened and they will speak things like "hamare deen ke nahi hain." They should be told to just teach and not speak on things about which they have no knowledge," she told reporters.
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Reacting to the matter, Gandhi Nagar MLA Anil Kumar Bajpai said a teacher's responsibility is to give good education to children. "This is absolutely wrong. A teacher should not make derogatory comments against any religious or holy place. Such people should be arrested," he said.
According to a report by NDTV, the teacher made derogatory remarks on the Kaaba -- the sacred stone building at Mecca -- and the Quran. "During Partition, you did not go to Pakistan. You stayed in India. You have no contribution in India's freedom," the complaint quoted the teacher as saying.
In a similar incident in Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar, a video surfaced showing teacher Tripta Tyagi in Neha Public School asking her students to slap a Muslim boy and also making objectionable remarks against the community. The teacher has been booked by the police but no arrest has been made in the case yet.
