Chennai: After a video of a teacher brutally assaulting a boy inside a government school classroom in front of his classmates in Cuddalore district went viral, the police have arrested him.
Sources said the teacher has been booked under the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.
The incident, which took place at the Government Nandanar Boys Higher Secondary School near Chidambaram, was filmed by a classmate of the class 12 student. The teacher punished the student allegedly for skipping an earlier class.
The 17-year-old boy had sustained injuries and was admitted to a government hospital. He has filed a police complaint and submitted video evidence.
Cuddalore Superintendent of Police S Sakthi Ganesan said, ‘we have arrested the Physics teacher. The investigation is on’.