Shocking Punishment Puts Teacher in Jail

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Indian police arrested a physics teacher who allegedly disciplined 22 unruly teenage students by giving them electric shocks, authorities said Wednesday.


The teacher used an exposed wire connected to batteries to administer mild shocks to eighth grade students in at a school in Bhusaval, a town 225 miles northeast of Mumbai, said S. Wagmare, the area's deputy superintendent of police.


The incident took place Saturday when the teacher "called the students to the laboratory for exercises, but he found them to be rowdy," Wagmare said.


Parents complained to the police and the teacher, who could not be reached for comment, was arrested two days later on criminal intimidation charges. He was later released on bail but faces up to two years in prison if convicted.


None of the students were injured, and all have continued to attend classes, said the school's principal, N.M. Joshi.


Physical punishment is illegal in Indian schools, but hitting students remains common in many parts of the country.