UP: Show cause notice to school over ‘electric chair' threatening to students

Uttar Pradesh Education department has sent a show cause notice to the management of a private school in Aligharh district for allegedly intimidating children with threats of “electric chair” and also failure to renew its permit to conduct classes.

Basic Education Officer Rakesh Kumar Singh said that he had received a complaint from the parent of student who alleged that his ward was tortured and “made to sit on an electric chair” as part of punishment.

“A parent of a child complained that their child was made to sit on a chair and was threatened. ... This incident was found to be false.

We saw the CCTV, the child was sitting and nothing like that was done to him,” the Basic Education official told ANI.

The official said, however, CCTV footage had shown another student being beaten up.

He also said that during an investigation it was discovered that the school had failed to renew its premit to conduct classes from 8.