FIR Registered Against UP Teacher: Asking Students To Slap Muslim Classmate

An Uttar Pradesh-based lawyer SM Haider Rizvi has recently moved to the NHRC seeking registration of an FIR against the teacher of a private school in the Muzaffarnagar district.

The teacher has been accused of making communal remarks and instructing her students to physically assault a fellow classmate belonging to the Muslim community, studying in class 2.

This development transpired shortly after a video recording of the alleged incident went viral across the internet. Consequently, the Muzaffarnagar Police initiated the registration of an FIR against Tripta Tyagi, a teacher of Neha Public School.

The complaint submitted by Advocate Rizvi advocates for the initiation of an FIR, to be probed by an agency by an impartial agency, against Tyagi under the provisions of Sections 153A, 295A, 298, 323, 504, and 506 of IPC. Additionally, the complaint requests compensation for the victim schoolboy, alongside his enrollment in a school within Delhi or any other district at the state’s expense.

The complaint states that the incident reveals a “flagitious” mindset of the teacher who “nurses’ hatred against a particular community”.

Further, the complaint states, “The video, which was circulated on social media all across the globe not only impacts the image and reputation of our country but also casts a blow on the secular fabric of the country, which is already dented considerably because of similar unscrupulous elements whose intent is only to ridicule and mock the country and the administration, with a view to further their nefarious intent of creating a faction amongst the various religious sects which hitherto lived amidst comity and brotherhood.”

Furthermore, it has also been contended in the complaint that the criminal act of the teacher has the potential to stoke inter-community tensions, thereby fostering a potentially explosive situation in the State and the Country, which may have bigger, larger ramifications.

Moreover, the complaint has sought a probe into the matter by an independent agency like CBI, ATS by claiming that the SSP Muzaffarnagar has “tried to cover up the issue” by mentioning that the child was beaten up was not able to learn a particular table and that was the reason why he was beaten up.

Further, the complaint submits, “This statement is not only a sham, but a misstatement which is factually also incorrect and goes on to prove that the District Police of Muzaffar Nagar would not be in a position to carry out a free and fair investigation.”