India, Oct. 29 -- A nursery teacher of a Belapur school was booked on Monday for allegedly slapping and isolating a three-year-old boy earlier this month. In the classroom's CCTV footage, it was seen that the boy was pulling a girl's hair after she took his toy, following which the teacher slapped him and isolated him for 20 minutes, the boy's mother told the police.

According to the police, on October 8, the boy's mother went to the school around 12.20 pm to pick him up and was asked to meet the vice-principal, who told her that her son had been mischievous in his class and had pulled a classmate's hair. The mother assured staff she would speak to him, but on reaching home, she noticed red marks and visible finger imprints on his right ...