Summary:
A private tuition teacher here in Maharashtra has been booked for allegedly asking an eight- year-old student to do "450 sit-ups" for not completing her homework, police said on Thursday. The girl, studying in Class 3 at a school in Thane district, took ill after the incident on Friday and had to be admitted to a hospital, they said. On Friday, the teacher asked the girl, a resident of Shanti Nagar locality in Mira Road area, to do 450 sit-ups as punishment for not doing her homework, the official said. Her mother filed the police complaint against the teacher on Saturday, the official said. At that time, the teacher appeared indifferent when the girl's mother questioned here, the police said..