Madhya Pradesh, Oct. 28 -- A government school teacher was suspended in Burhanpur district in Madhya Pradesh, over allegations of making students perform yoga poses "resembling namaz."

The teacher, identified as Jaboor Ahmed Tadvi, worked at a government middle school in Deohari village.

Some parents complained that Hindu students were being taught to perform "namaz-like postures" under the pretext of Surya Namaskar and yoga.

The District Education Officer (DEO), Santosh Singh Solanki, sent a team to investigate and suspended Ahmed on Saturday, October 25, till the pending inquiry.

Tadvi had denied the allegations, saying that the students were practising Shashankasana, a recognised yoga pose that might have been mistaken for a prayer...