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Teacher gets one-day jail, ` 1 lakh fine for beating students

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PANAJI   

The Children’s court on Tuesday sentenced to one day simple imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs 1.1 lakh on a teacher of a government primary school at Headland-Sada, for beating two sisters in the classroom.

The Court said the teacher will have to undergo an additional one-year jail sentence in lieu of her failure to pay the fine.  

Children’s Court President Vandana Tendulkar passed the order in the case instituted after the victim girls’ father filed the complaint against Rekha Faldesai at the Mormugao police station in 2014.  

The father of the two victim students said in his complaint that the teacher beat up his 


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