Pune teacher suspended for snipping boy’s hair

pune — In a shocking incident, a schoolteacher here has been suspended for snipping off a student’s hair in front of the entire class, officials said.

The ‘barberic’ incident happened on July 17 at the Vishrantwadi Pune International School, shocking the academic community and parents in Maharashtra’s educational hub. A Class 6 student, Aryan Amit Waghmare, 10, was allegedly meted out the strange ‘punishment’ by his teacher Shweta Gupta, as the entire classroom looked.

According to the student’s mother, Aditi Waghmare, the teacher grabbed a pair of scissors and snipped off Aryan’s hair from the front and the sides, spoiling his hairstyle and looks.

Second cut

“No reason was given to us for such a penalty... This is the second time such an incident has happened with my son. Earlier, in the third week of June, his hair was similarly cut off, but we did not take it too seriously,” a distraught Waghmare said.

This time, the Waghmares went to the Vishrantwadi Police Station and complained about the incident following which the school authorities were summoned. “What happened was wrong... We warned the school management that such things should not be repeated. The school authorities informed us that the concerned teacher had been suspended,” said Vishrantwadi Police Station Inspector Sangita D. Patil. —