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The woman teacher of the school in Muzaffarnagar district has also been accused of hurling communal slurs at the victim boy

An eight-year-old Muslim boy who was slapped by his classmates on the orders of his teacher has been admitted to a "good" school in Muzaffarnagar city

India News: An eight-year-old Muslim boy who was slapped by his classmates on the orders of his teacher has been admitted to a "good" school in Muzaffarnagar city

Tripta Tyagi, headmistress and owner of the Neha Public School in a Muzaffarnagar village, had on August 24 allegedly declared that “Muslim students should be beaten before being sent home… because they don’t do their homework well”. She had allegedly asked the other pupils to slap the boy

A bench of Justices Abhay S Oka and Pankaj Mithal asked the state government to conduct counselling of the victim and other students, who were involved in the case, by professional counsellors

SC posts the matter for further hearing to September 25

While forcing the Hindu classmates to beat the child on August 24, Tyagi had been caught on camera declaring that Muslim pupils should be beaten up before they are sent back home because they do not do their homework well

The incident, which took place at a school in Muzaffarnagar district on August 25, had triggered widespread criticism and calls for action after a video of headmistress Tripta Tyagi instructing the students to hit the sobbing Muslim boy harder went viral

Primary education minister and CPM leader V. Sivankutty says state is ready to adopt the boy if his parents are ready to send him to Kerala

According to Shubham Shukla, basic education officer of the district, school didn’t fulfil required operational criteria