Mumbai: Teacher among 3 held for chopping off students’ hair as punishment

The incident took place at suburban Vikhroli on Friday following which accused were arrested late on Friday night on a complaint lodged by the parents of some students.

Three staff members of a private school in Mumbai including a teacher and a director have been arrested for forcibly chopping off the hair of 25 students so as to punish them for not following the prescribed dress code, police said on Saturday.

Representative photo. Twenty five boys, from Class V-VIII, were punished by school authorities for not keeping a short hair cut as per the school orders, police said.

The incident took place at suburban Vikhroli on Friday after the morning prayers following which accused were arrested late on Friday night on a complaint lodged by the parents of some students.

These 25 boys (from Class V-VIII) were punished for not keeping a short hair cut as per the school orders, they said.

The school had allegedly asked children a few days ago to maintain a cropped hairstyle but some of them failed to do so following which school director Ganesh Bata (40), physical training teacher Milind Zanke (33) and office assistant Tushar Gore (32) decided to teach them a lesson, police said.

During the mass hair cut session, two boys were injured by the scissors, allegedly used by the trio to hand out the punishment, they said.

All the accused were produced before a local court on Saturday and further probe is on, he said.