
“Kamar par maaro...kulho par maaro saale ke. Aye kya tum maar rahe ho isse, zor se maaro na, ab kiska number…”
A private school teacher in Uttar Pradesh’s Mansurpur, Tripta Tyagi, ordered students to assault their upper kindergarten classmate, slap him on the waist, buttocks, after “his cheeks turned red from the beatings”, “hit him harder” – purportedly for only one fault of his, he couldn’t recite the multiplication table of five.