Police in India are investigating a video that reveals a faculty trainer telling her pupils to slap their seven-year-old Muslim classmate.

The boy is filmed in tears as he’s slapped, allegedly for getting his occasions tables improper.

The video went viral on social media, and has triggered widespread dismay and condemnation.

India’s opposition chief Rahul Gandhi blamed the federal government for stoking spiritual intolerance.

The incident occurred on Thursday at a personal college in Uttar Pradesh, a northern state.

“Why are you hitting him so lightly? Hit him hard,” the trainer is heard telling the youngsters, because the boy stands crying.

“Start hitting him on the waist… His face is turning red, hit him on the waist instead,” she added.

Authorities in India confirmed the video was actual, and mentioned they’d take motion.

The sufferer’s father reported the incident to police within the Muzaffarnagar district, and has pulled him out of the college. But he didn’t press fees.

Rights teams have warned that hate crimes and violence in opposition to India’s massive Muslim minority have elevated since Prime Minister Narendra Modi took workplace in 2014.

Uttar Pradesh has been ruled by his Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) since 2017.

Mr Gandhi mentioned the celebration had contributed to spiritual tensions felt throughout India.

“Sowing the poison of discrimination in the minds of innocent children, turning a holy place like school into a marketplace of hatred,” he posted to social media platform X, previously often known as Twitter.

“This is the same kerosene spread by the BJP that has set every corner of India on fire.”

In June throughout a go to to the US Mr Modi instructed journalists that there was “absolutely no space for discrimination” in India.