Earlier, the Supreme Court had pulled up the Uttar Pradesh government for not arranging counselling for the school students involved in the incident.
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New Delhi: The Uttar Pradesh government Today (1 March) apprised the Supreme Court about the status of counselling of students who were allegedly instructed by their school teacher to slap a Muslim boy for not doing his homework.
A bench of justices Abhay S Oka and Ujjal Bhuyan took note of the compliance affidavit filed by the education department which said the workshops for them will be held till April 24.
Earlier, the court had pulled up the Uttar Pradesh government for not arranging counselling for the students involved in the incident.
During Today’s hearing, the court perused the compliance affidavit filed by the Shiksha Adhikari, Muzaffarnagar, stating that workshops will be held till April 24. The court directed the state to file an appropriate affidavit about the workshops being organised.
“We direct the state to file appropriate affidavit by end of April about the conduct of the workshops,”
-the bench said.
On being informed that the reimbursement that was being given for the travel had been stopped, the court asked the state counsel to take instructions in this regard, and orally asked to ensure that the amount is released.
“You may take instructions. Please ensure the amount is released. There may be some charitable organisations that may help the state,”
-the court told the state counsel.
While hearing the matter on February 9, the top court had slammed the state government for not counselling the students who were allegedly instructed by their school teacher to slap the fellow student for not doing his homework.
“There was an element of urgency in counselling. We direct the state government to immediately implement the suggestions in TISS (Tata Institute of Social Sciences) report about the counselling of other children, who were participants and witnesses in the corporal punishment incident,”
-the bench had said.
The court was hearing a PIL filed by Tushar Gandhi seeking a proper and time-bound investigation into the incident.
The petition pertains to a video widely circulated on social media wherein a female teacher at a private school in Uttar Pradesh’s Muzaffarnagar district can be purportedly seen encouraging students to slap a classmate.
PREVIOUS REPORTS ON THE CASE
SC Criticizes Government for Neglecting Counselling for Students
SC Criticises Govt Over Teacher Inciting Students to Hit Muslim classmate
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