Teacher at Vedic school in MP's Ujjain booked for caning student in hostel

UJJAIN: (Mar 22) A teacher at Maharshi Sandipani Ved Vidya Pratishthan in Madhya Pradesh's Ujjain city was booked on Sunday for allegedly beating up a student, a video of which went viral on social media, a police official said.

A case under sections 115 and 296, among others, of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) was registered against Datt Das Shevde on the complaint of the student, Chintaman police station house officer (SHO) Hemraj Yadav told PTI.

In the video, the teacher can be seen beating up the student with a cane unfazed by the latter's pleading to spare him.