An FIR was filed against the teacher, who claimed that that he had only asked them to do 10 sit-ups. Citing a 2007 report by the Ministry of Women and Child Development, UNICEF goes on to state that physical abuse is "rampant in every single district in the country". The students were sent to hospital for treatment.And finally, in Ahmedabad, a teacher was suspended in May for having beaten students, and for having pulled a boy's hair, and banged his head on the ground, drawing blood. The teacher was immediately suspended, and the students underwent treatment at a local hospital on Friday morning.Two students in a private school in Odisha's Koraput district were brutally beaten last month by a principal and a teacher, for allegedly stealing a teacher's cellphone. NEW DELHI: South Sudan, and the Republic of Congo - which are ranked 1 and 5 on the UN's Fragile States List - are on a list of 49 countries that have outlawed all corporal punishment India, the land of non-violent Mohandas Gandhi, isn't.UNICEF says "two out of three school going children in India are physically abused" in India.

Source: Times of India June 11, 2016 07:57 UTC