Mumbai:
In another case of extreme punishment, a teacher in Maharashtra has chopped off a male student's hair.
The teacher at Karnala High School in Panvel was reportedly angry because the student's shirt was not completely buttoned up. The boy was a Class 9 student.
A case has been registered with the Panvel police against the teacher. "We saw the way our son had been humiliated, his shirt was torn, hair cut, the wounds to his face. We have filed a police complaint and want the teacher arrested," says Bhimsen Mali, the student's father.
Last week, in two separate cases in Andhra Pradesh, students were punished for speaking in Telugu instead of English.
In one case, a young boy and girl were forced to stand with placards around their necks declaring, "We will not speak in Teulgu."
In another case, a teacher made students write, "I will not speak in Telugu" over and over in their notebooks. When confronted, she described this as an exercise to improve handwriting.