Palghar: Officials of a school in Palghar have been booked for allegedly threatening a student to give positive feedback about the institution, police said on Sunday. A student had complained that teachers at the school, while distributing feedback forms, had told him he would not be allowed to sit for the annual exams if he gave a poor review, a Virar police official said.
The 13-year-old student was also threatened with a beating by the teachers, he said quoting the complainant. Palghar police spokesperson Hemant Kumar Katkar said Virar police on Saturday registered a case under sections of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act and section 506 (criminal intimidation) of the IPC against the Yahswant Nagar-based school. The official said a probe was on and no arrests had been made so far.