New Delhi, August 27, 2023 (PPI-OT): The Indian government led by Narendra Modi has moved to block online, the viral video of a Muslim student being slapped by his classmates on the order of their Hindu teacher, in Uttar Pradesh’s Muzaffarnagar district, Indian English newspaper The Hindu reported.
The newspaper has identified at least three posts on X (formerly Twitter), that have been taken down in India; the posts remain available for X users in other countries.
One posting of the video has over 900,000 views, with other posts having tens of thousands of views each. The Indian Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) did not respond to a query on the censorship, and neither did an official who is charged with issuing takedown orders to social media platforms under Section 69A of the Information Technology Act, 2000.
X told users whose posts were deleted that their posts would no longer be visible in India and that they could appeal the action with the Ministry. It is worth mentioning here that the female school teacher subjected the seven-year-old Muslim student to degrading treatment inside a classroom.
The disturbing video viral on social media showed Trapta Tyagi, the teacher at Neha Public School in Kubbapur village, 30km from Muzaffarnagar town, making Islamophobic remarks in addition to encouraging Hindu students to slap the Muslim student harder.
“I have declared jitne bhi Mohammedan (Muslim) bachhe hai…” the teacher said on the camera encouraging Hindu students to thrash the Muslim kid in the class.
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