The Karnataka Education Department has initiated an enquiry into the alleged incident of a headmistress punishing a girl student by making her strip before the classmates in her office chamber and brutally assaulting with a stick, sources said on Friday.The shocking incident took place in the Government High School of Gananguru village in Srirangapattana taluk of Mandya district last week. The girl studying in Class 8 was allegedly beaten ruthlessly with a stick and asked to strip before the classmates and the headmistress forced her to remain in that state without clothes for hours.The victim said that the headmistress was furious after she came to know that she had brought a mobile to the classroom. During the lunch hour, the teacher had asked the students who had brought mobiles to the school to submit them. The headmistress had warned the girls that if they did not submit the mobile phones by themselves, she would get them stripped and make boys check them.
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