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29:01Now PlayingA horrifying incident in India's Muzaffarnagar district has sparked outrage nationwide after a video surfaced on social media showing a teacher, Tripta Tyagi, encouraging students to slap their seven-year-old Muslim classmate, Mohammad Altamash. The video shows a visibly anxious Altamash standing before Tyagi and his classmates as they took turns slapping him, while Tyagi instructed them to do it “properly” and made anti-Muslim remarks. The incident led to widespread condemnation, including from opposition leader Rahul Gandhi, who accused Tyagi of “sowing the poison of discrimination in the minds of innocent children” and blamed the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party for stoking intolerance and violence against religious minorities in India. Altamash's parents, who noted that the incident left their son severely traumatized, initially hesitated to file a complaint due to fears they would not be heard but decided to take action after the public outcry. Tyagi claimed the incident had nothing to do with the boy's religion. She asserted that Altamash’s father had asked her to be strict towards him, and because she was physically disabled and couldn't get up, she asked other students to discipline him. “His father brought the child in and said to straighten him out. Now, because I can’t get up, I thought I’d get one or two children to hit him,” Tyagi said. This version of events was vehemently disputed by Mohammad Irshad, Altamash's father, who stated that his son is good at his studies and expressed confusion as to why the teacher would treat him in such a manner. He suggested that the incident seemed to be motivated by hate, a stark contrast to Tyagi's defense that her actions were merely a response to a request for strict discipline.
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