After a horrific video of a schoolboy getting slapped by his classmates on the instruction of the teacher went viral, the accused Tripta Tyagi continues to claim her innocence.
The NHRC observed that the media reports, if true, "amount to a violation of the victim's human rights." Meanwhile, the teacher at the center of the controversy has asserted that there was no communal angle.
Tripta Tyagi is the teacher from Uttar Pradesh’s Muzaffarnagar who has gone viral for allegedly instructing children in her class to slap their Muslim classmate
The school is owned by Tripta Tyagi, the teacher who is accused of making communal remarks and ordering the children to hit their classmate - ostensibly because he got his multiplication tables wrong.