UP teacher beats up student who caught him watching porn in classroom: Report

The teacher has been booked and reportedly been taken into custody for questioning.

An eight-year-old boy was beaten up by a school teacher in Uttar Pradesh's Jhansi after he discovered the latter was watching pornographic content on his mobile phone inside a classroom.

Along with his friends, the student in question was laughing at their teacher's action. Once the teacher saw them, he grabbed the victim and slammed his head against a wall, an NDTV report has revealed.

"The students' reaction angered Mr Yadav, who then abused and brutally thrashed my son. He grabbed my son by his hair and slammed his head against the wall. He also thrashed him with a cane. My son sustained injuries, including in his ear. I have registered a police complaint against the teacher," the student's father said, according to the publication.

Superintendent Of Police (Rural) said that a case has been filed, and an investigation is under way.

“A case of assault in a school has come to light in which an 8-year-old child was beaten up by his class teacher. Based on the complaint by the boy’s father, we have detained the teacher.” the SP said, as per India Today.

The teacher has reportedly been taken into custody for questioning.

In another incident, the teacher of a convent school in the Chitbaragaon police station area in UP's Ballia was booked for allegedly beating a class six student for wearing a cap to school.

The teacher allegedly beat the child again after his father complained to the school authorities about the incident, Chitbaragaon police station in-charge Prashant Kumar Chaudhary said.

An FIR was filed against Jitendra Rai, a teacher at Nav Bharat Children Academy, on the complaint of Anil Kumar Gupta from Jai Prakash Nagar village on Wednesday, police said.

Rai had also reportedly banged the child's head against a wall.

(With PTI inputs)