On August 25, a video of a minor boy getting slapped by fellow students in the presence of a female teacher went viral. The said video was circulated in social media by left-liberal media outlets and representatives as a Hindu woman ordering students to beat a Muslim student. However, after the video went viral, the Uttar Pradesh police issued a clarification video stating there was no communal angle in the video. The teacher turned out to be a Divyang and hence she used students to punish the minor, claims around the video are rising, and so is the controversy.
Here is all you need to know
The viral video
As per reports, the incident took place on August 24 when a student got his multiplication table wrong. The class teacher, who is a handicapped woman, instructed other kids in the class to slap him. She was identified as Tripta Tyagi, the owner of the Neha Public School.
In a video, that went viral on social media, the said student could be seen in tears while other kids slapped him one by one. Tyagi was also heard saying, “Kya tum maar rahe ho? Zor se maaro na (Why are you hitting him lightly? Hit him hard).” She had also made a reference to ‘Mohammedan students.’
What said the police?
The area falls under the jurisdiction of Mansurpur police station. While speaking about the incident, SP (Muzaffarnagar) Satyanarayan Prajapat, informed, “In the video, the teacher said that the Mohammedan children, who are not looked after by their mothers, go astray. This was also confirmed by the man who shot the video.”
Khatauli Circle Officer, Dr Ravi Shankar, said, “We are trying to convince the child’s father to file a complaint; after that we would be able to file an FIR. Further legal action is being taken.”
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सम्बन्धित प्रकरण में थाना मन्सूरपुर पुलिस द्वारा अध्यापिका के विरुद्ध सुसंगत धाराओं में अभियोग पंजीकृत किया जा चुका है, स्थानीय पुलिस द्वारा अग्रिम विधिक कार्यवाही की जा रही है।
— MUZAFFARNAGAR POLICE (@muzafarnagarpol) August 26, 2023
What says the victim’s father?
The child’s father told The Indian Express that he would not send his child to the school on receipt of the refund of the fees. “A settlement has been reached that no complaint would be filed,” he was heard saying.
“My son is seven years old. This incident happened on August 24. The teacher made the students beat my child again & again. My nephew made the video and had gone to school for some work…My seven-year-old child was tortured for an hour or two. He is scared…This is not a Hindu-Muslim matter. We want the law should take its own course,” he said.
#WATCH | UP: "My son is seven years old. This incident happened on 24th August. The teacher made the students beat my child again & again. My nephew made the video and had gone to school for some work…My seven-year-old child was tortured for an hour or two. He is scared…This… https://t.co/qQ7FaiPbza pic.twitter.com/zEelhTdK6G
— ANI (@ANI) August 26, 2023
What says the Child Commission?
Priyank Kanoongo, the Chief of the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR), said, “In Uttar Pradesh’s Muzaffarnagar, the incident of a teacher getting a child beaten up by other children in the class has been reported.”
“Taking cognisance, instructions are being issued for action. Everyone is requested not to share the video of the child. Give information about such incidents by email. Do not become a part of the crime by revealing the identity of the children,” he emphasised.
उत्तरप्रदेश के मुज़फ़्फ़रनगर में एक शिक्षिका द्वारा कक्षा में बच्चे को अन्य बच्चों से पिटवाये जाने की घटना की जानकारी मिली है।
संज्ञान ले कर कार्यवाही हेतु निर्देश जारी किए जा रहे हैं,सभी से निवेदन है कि बच्चे का वीडियो शेयर न करें इस तरह की घटना की जानकारी ईमेल द्वारा दें,बच्चों…— प्रियंक कानूनगो Priyank Kanoongo (मोदी का परिवार) (@KanoongoPriyank) August 25, 2023
What says teacher Tripta Tyagi?
After the event, the accused teacher acknowledged she erred and was responsible for asking other pupils to hit the little kid for making mistakes. For the same, she asked for an apology. She emphasised that she didn’t pass off any offensive words, as has been reported based on the footage, which she claimed was altered, and that she had no malicious or antisocial motives.
She said, | “The video that was made viral was edited and cut, I had no such intentions…in our place, Hindus and Muslims stay with unity and we have more Muslim students in our school…there was pressure from the parents of the child to be strict with him. I am handicapped I can’t get up…he was not doing homework for last 2 months…so I made 2-3 students beat him up so that he would start doing his work…what I said was ‘Muhamdan mothers’ must not take their kids to their uncles’ homes as the exam is approaching. But they cut this video and took the ‘Muhamdan’ word…I had no such intentions…I have made a mistake and I seek apology with folded hands”, she added.
#WATCH | "The video that was made viral was edited and cut, I had no such intentions…in our place, Hindus and Muslims stay with unity and we have more Muslim students in our school…there was pressure from the parents of the child to be strict with him. I am handicapped I can’t… pic.twitter.com/WYpbFGetik
— ANI (@ANI) August 26, 2023
What says the man who made the video viral?
The same claim was also made by the child’s cousin, Nadeem, who identified himself as Mohd Imtiaz’s son in the video of the incident. He emphasised that the accused teacher had asked other pupils to beat up his cousin while going into further detail about the incident. But he went on to say that the teacher’s comment and the video had been altered to make offensive and group allegations about what had happened in front of him.
He emphasised that the teacher said Muslim moms take their children to live with relatives during the exam season, which has a bad impact on their academic performance. He made it abundantly clear that she didn’t say anything disparaging towards Muslims.
This guy Nadeem is the cousin of that kid & the same guy who recorded the video.
He's saying that the teacher didn't pass any anti MusIim comment & she was complaining about Muslim women who don't care about their children's studies.Share this video max! pic.twitter.com/9h5ThtsZhC
— Mr Sinha (Modi's family) (@MrSinha_) August 26, 2023
What do the left-liberal media say?
Many Islamists like fake news peddler Mohammad Zubair, The Wire journalist Alishan Jafri and their sympathisers like TMC leader Saket Gokhale, Sanjay Singh and Sadaf Amin tried to fan communal discord by misrepresenting the Muzaffarnagar school case as a Hindu-Muslim issue through their social media handles.
No #TriptaTyagi , attempts to victim-wash your repugnant and despicable targeting of a child, won’t work. ‘Teachers’ like #TriptaTyagi need to face consequences, else the culture of impunity will only grow. #NehaPublicSchool #Muzaffarnagar https://t.co/InLPEqduVS
— Sagarika Ghose (@sagarikaghose) August 26, 2023
So she’s denying Islamophobia and playing the victim card. The Islamophobia aside, she should know hitting children is illegal, whether or not she’s handicapped. At the very least her school needs to be shut down. #ArrestTriptaTayagi https://t.co/1vVkX4WwGx
— Shivam Vij (@DilliDurAst) August 26, 2023
What has been tampered with when she is admitting that she got the kids to beat the little boy? The only thing that’s been tampered with is her humanity that seems to be missing. #ArrestTriptaTayagi https://t.co/MycOZW0Ebj
— Rohini Singh (@rohini_sgh) August 26, 2023
High time for the media to come together and collectively pushback against these attempts to gag free speech. https://t.co/S87rOPHZG5
— Alishan Jafri (@alishan_jafri) August 26, 2023
Notably, the police even after refusing the communal claim and talking to the victim’s parents have registered an FIR against the teacher in this case. The whole left-liberal media is busy painting this incident as an attack on the minority community around the world. Meer Faisal, the one who wrote for the propaganda website Maktoob Media was the one to share the video at first and his report on the case was also published on Al-Jazeera, a website working against India. These propagandists are shrewdly making use of this controversy to meet their narratives. No matter how baseless the allegations are.
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