India, Oct. 12 -- Police have booked the director of a coaching centre in south Delhi's Munirka for assault and wrongful confinement after a 16-year-old student was allegedly assaulted by the teacher for failing to submit his homework last week.

The teacher was identified as Anand Kumar and the victim, a class 11 student at a government school in RK Puram, also lives nearby. The centre provides tuition for classes 10 to 12, and for IIT and JEE preparation.

According to police, the boy was at the coaching centre for his usual evening batch classes on October 6 when Kumar began questioning students in his class about their homework.

In the First Information Report (FIR), lodged on Thursday, the victim alleged, "My turn came after five to...