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This should shock the conscience of the State: SC to UP
Updated On: 26 September, 2023 08:33 AM IST | New Delhi | Agencies
Apex court pulls up UP govt, says there can’t be quality education if a student is penalised over religion; orders that investigation be supervised by senior IPS officer
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The Supreme Court on Monday pulled up the Uttar Pradesh government over the manner of dealing with the incident where a Muslim child was slapped by classmates on instructions of a teacher in Muzaffarnagar, and said that “there cannot be any quality of education if the student is penalised based on religion”.
A bench of Justice Abhay S Oka and Justice Pankaj Mithal noting that there was a delay in the registration of the FIR and the FIR has omitted the allegations made by the victim`s father regarding communal targeting, it ordered that the probe should be supervised by senior IPS officer, nominee by the State.
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