J&K teacher beats student for writing ‘Jai Shri Ram’ on blackboard, arrested

Kashmir, 27/8: Just a day after a teacher in Uttar Pradesh was seen making her students beat a fellow Muslim kid, two teachers in the Kathua district of Jammu were booked for allegedly administering corporal punishment to a student for writing “Jai Shri Ram” on the blackboard.

The incident was reported from the government higher secondary school in the Bani area of Kathua on Friday and a case was lodged on Saturday, police said. The accused teacher was identified as Farooq Ahmad.