Angry parents of a Class III student, studying at the Faridabad Model School, staged protest outside the premises. They were fuming over the stripping of the girl by her teacher in class, allegedly for not paying fees.
The nine-year-old says her desperate appeal had no impact on the lady teacher.
"When I asked why she was doing it, she said it was the principal's order," the girl says.
The family claims they are exempted from paying fees under the economically deprived quota as the girl's father is an auto-rickshaw driver. Her mother, who's a member of the parents association, alleges harassment by the school authorities.
"I have an order from the education department which exempts us from paying fees. We are very poor," she says.
But the school principal Shashi Malik says wasn't aware of the incident.
"If there was any such incident, parents should have told me. But no one came. If this is true we will take strong action against the teacher," Malik says.
But the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights is outraged.
"We are looking into the matter. It seems to be a case of child rights violation," says one of its members Sandhya Bajaj.
Police have registered a case and the teacher has been detained for questioning.
