<p class="title">A government school teacher in Madhya Pradesh's Jhabua district has been arrested and remanded in 14-days judicial custody by a court here for allegedly directing some students to slap their classmate 168 times for not completing her homework.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Thandla tehsil's Judicial Magistrate First Class Jai Patidar on Monday turned down the bail plea of Manoj Verma, 35, additional district prosecution officer Ravi Prakash Rai said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Verma allegedly directed students to slap the girl, then studying in Class 6 at Jawahar Navodaya School in Thandla town, in January last year, he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">According to the victim's father Shiv Pratap Singh, his daughter did not go to school from January 1 to 10, 2018 as she was unwell.</p>.<p class="bodytext">On January 11, when the girl went to school without completing her homework, Verma told her classmates to slap her as a form of punishment following which 14 girls slapped her two times every day for six days.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Singh lodged a complaint with the school management which constituted a committee to probe the incident.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The panel found the teacher guilty and suspended him, the prosecutor said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In the meantime, Singh also lodged a complaint with the police against the teacher under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code and the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He told police that his daughter was distressed and fell ill following the incident and had to be admitted to a local hospital. She also refused to go to school.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The teacher was arrested in connection with the offence on Monday and denied bail by the court the same day.</p>
<p class="title">A government school teacher in Madhya Pradesh's Jhabua district has been arrested and remanded in 14-days judicial custody by a court here for allegedly directing some students to slap their classmate 168 times for not completing her homework.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Thandla tehsil's Judicial Magistrate First Class Jai Patidar on Monday turned down the bail plea of Manoj Verma, 35, additional district prosecution officer Ravi Prakash Rai said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Verma allegedly directed students to slap the girl, then studying in Class 6 at Jawahar Navodaya School in Thandla town, in January last year, he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">According to the victim's father Shiv Pratap Singh, his daughter did not go to school from January 1 to 10, 2018 as she was unwell.</p>.<p class="bodytext">On January 11, when the girl went to school without completing her homework, Verma told her classmates to slap her as a form of punishment following which 14 girls slapped her two times every day for six days.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Singh lodged a complaint with the school management which constituted a committee to probe the incident.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The panel found the teacher guilty and suspended him, the prosecutor said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In the meantime, Singh also lodged a complaint with the police against the teacher under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code and the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He told police that his daughter was distressed and fell ill following the incident and had to be admitted to a local hospital. She also refused to go to school.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The teacher was arrested in connection with the offence on Monday and denied bail by the court the same day.</p>