A minor student studying in a government school in Jammu’s Kathua area was beaten by teacher Farooq Ahmed and principal Mohammed Hafiz for writing ‘Jai Shri Ram’ on the class blackboard.

The incident reportedly occurred on Friday, August 25, at Government Higher Secondary School (HSS), Bani. Later, on Saturday morning, his father admitted him to a hospital.

A video of the victim, currently hospitalized, has gone viral on social media. In the video, the minor student (class X) is seen narrating the incident. When asked why he is in the hospital, the victim says that his teacher, Farooq, and the school principal brutally thrashed him for writing Jai Shri Ram on the blackboard.

The police confirmed that the minor schoolboy was beaten for writing ‘Jai Shri Ram’ on the blackboard, the OpIndia has reported.

As per the report, the police added that they have filed an FIR in the case against two accused under Sections 323 (deals with punishment for voluntarily causing hurt), 342 (wrongful confinement), 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of peace), and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). Additionally, they have charged the accused under Section 75 (provides for punishment, if any person having control of child, assaults, abandons, abuses or willfully neglects the child) of the Juvenile Justice Act.

“The FIR has mentioned lecturer Farooq as the accused who thrashed the victim for writing ‘Jai Shri Ram’ on the class blackboard. Principal Mohammed Hafiz has also been named in the FIR. They will soon be arrested,” a police official told OpIndia.

The Jammu and Kashmir government has formed a three-member high-level committee led by the SDM of Bani to inquire into the incident.