A school teacher named Shaista was arrested on Thursday for inciting communal hatred after she allegedly ordered a Muslim student to slap a Hindu classmate for not answering a question, police said.

The incident took place at a private school on Tuesday in Dugawar village under the Asmoli police station limits in UP’s Sambhal district.

Additional SP Shrish Chandra said that on the basis of a complaint filed by the Hindu boy’s father, the teacher, Shaista, was booked under IPC sections 153A (promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion, race, etc) and 323 (voluntarily causing hurt).

The boy’s father said that his son is a student of class 5 in the school where his class teacher got him slapped by a Muslim student after he could not answer a question asked by her. This hurt his son’s religious feelings, he added in the complaint.