Overview
- Waliv Police registered an FIR and arrested teacher Mamta Yadav, booking her under BNS Section 105 for culpable homicide not amounting to murder and Section 75 for cruelty toward a child.
- According to the FIR, the 13-year-old was punished on November 8 for arriving late and was made to perform 100 sit-ups while carrying her schoolbag.
- Her condition worsened over subsequent days, she was treated at local facilities and then moved to Mumbai’s JJ Hospital, where she died on November 14.
- Preliminary post-mortem findings note pulmonary oedema and splenomegaly with anaemia recorded, and the final cause awaits chemical analysis of viscera.
- The school has suspended the teacher and pledged cooperation, police say the probe is at an early stage with possible action against the administration if negligence is found, and a Mumbai advocate has asked the Bombay High Court to take suo motu cognisance and form a SIT.