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  Maharashtra: Student dies after 100 sit-ups punishment for coming late; teacher nabbed

  Maharashtra | November 19, 2025 23:27 IST

  The police said the girl was made to do sit-ups along with other students as she arrived 10 minutes late to the school. She experienced discomfort and swelling after reaching home and was eventually hospitalised.

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  Class 3 student punished with 450 sit-ups for not completing homework, teacher booked

  India | January 23, 2020 11:40 IST

  Before this incident, the teacher, identified as Lata, last month also allegedly stripped the girl and beat her with a cane stick for not doing the homework, Naya Nagar police station sub-inspector Sohel Pathan said quoting the complaint filed by the child's mother.

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  Most embarrassing punishments that every 90's kid went through!

  Lifestyle | November 21, 2014 10:24 IST

  Most of our (mine at least!) school time memories are flooded with punishments & detentions with studies fitting somewhere between here-n-there! Though corporal punishment has been termed illegal in India, but it is still more or