The Supreme Court on January 12, 2024, directly blamed the Uttar Pradesh government for the incident of a teacher at a Muzaffarnagar private school goading her students to slap their seven-year-old Muslim classmate.
“All this happened because the State did not do what it was expected to do. The State should be very concerned about the manner in which this incident happened,” Justice AS Oka, heading a Bench, told the counsel for Uttar Pradesh.
“But it was a private school…” the State counsel protested.
