GURUGRAM: The English teacher of a school in Devi Lal Nagar was suspended on Thursday following complaints by the parents of a 12-year-old boy that he was beaten up for not doing homework According to the boy’s parents, the child returned home on Wednesday with bruises on his body and when his mother enquired, he told her that his English teacher thrashed him with a stick as he had not completed his homework.“Miss hit me on my back, legs, chest and hands. This continued for 15 minutes. Though I cried and apologised several times, but the teacher did not stop hitting me,” the boy told his mother.The boy was taken to a private hospital in Basai Chowk where the doctor, who attended the boy, wrote in his prescription, “Pain on right wrist, left thigh, sign of being hit by a stick.”Following the doctor’s confirmation, the parents approached the school authorities on Thursday and reported the matter demanding strict action against the teacher.The authorities immediately scanned the CCTV footage and suspended the teacher. The chairman of the school, said, “I was shocked to see the CCTV footage. We immediately suspended the teacher. She was recruited a year back but we never knew that she had been was physically assaulting the students.”The parents have, however, decided not to approach the police as the school has taken action.(As a minor is involved, TOI has held back the identity of the boy and his parents.)

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