"The Video Was Edited", Says Teacher Who Asked Students to Slap Their Muslim Classmate (Image:twitter.com/Politics_2022_/status/)
Trapti Tyagi, a private school teacher who was seen on a viral video asking her students to hit their Muslim classmate, has come up with a justification for her actions now. “The boy was hit for an hour because he did not study multiplication tables”, Ms Tyagi explained.
“The video that was made viral was edited and cut, I had no such intentions”, she said in an interview given to ANI.
A video of Ms Tyagi, Principal of Neha Public School in Uttar Pradesh’s Muzaffarnagar, ordering the students slap the boy went viral on social media. In the video, the teacher refers to the child’s Muslim faith, and talks disparagingly about “Mohammedan children”. She was seen asking the students to beat up the child and mentioning his Muslim identity, even though his friends resists.
“In our place, Hindus and Muslims stay with unity and we have more Muslim students in our school”, she explained in the interview.
“There was pressure from the parents of the child to be strict with him”, she added.
According to Ms Tyagi, the video was tampered in purpose to fuel tensions. The teacher claimed that she was forced to get the student slapped by his classmates as she is handicapped and was not able to stand up and reach the student.
“I am handicapped I can’t get up”, she said in her defense.
“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”, said Ms Tyagi.
#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
“I have made a mistake”, she said while seeking apology with folded hands.
Police booked Tyagi at the complaint of the boy”s family for instigating communal hatred by urging Hindu students to hit a Muslim child for not doing his homework. But the sections she has been charged with are not yet revealed.
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi had on Friday in a post on X condemned the incident saying, “sowing the poison of discrimination in the minds of innocent children, turning a holy place like school into a marketplace of hatred — nothing worse a teacher can do for the country”.
“This is the same kerosene spread by the BJP which has set every corner of India on fire”, he added.
