Muzaffarnagar slapping case: Supreme Court orders UP police to file status report by September 25

The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed Muzaffarnagar Police to submit a status report on its investigation into the case against a teacher who ordered students in her class to slap their Muslim classmate by September 25, report Live Law.

A bench of Justices Abhay S Oka and Pankaj Mithal asked Muzaffarnagar Superintendent of Police Sanjeev Suman to inform the court about the measures taken to protect the seven-year-old student and his parents.

On August 24, a video of the Muslim boy being slapped by his classmates went viral on social media. The incident took place in Muzaffarnagar’s Neha Public School, owned by Tripta Tyagi, who was the teacher seen in the video asking the boy’s classmates to hit him.

“I have declared – all these Muslim children, go to anyone’s area,” she can be heard telling a man off camera who agrees. She then asks another boy to hit the Muslim student on his back, saying: “Start hitting him on the waist... His face is turning red, hit him on the waist everyone.”

Following the incident, author Tushar Gandhi, the great-grandson of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, popularly called Mahatma Gandhi., had filed a public interest litigation before the Supreme Court.

In his petition, he had claimed that since Tyagi was booked, the student’s family was being...

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