In the thirty-second video, the teacher was seen degrading the Muslim student. The incident was reported at a school in Uttar Pradesh, India’s most populous state, reported Al Jazeera.

“I have declared that all Muslim children should go,” she was seen as saying in the video and a male voice in the background was heard agreeing with the teacher. She also made Islamophobic remarks.

Indian newspaper, Hindustan Times, reported that it was not yet known how the video was shot as the teacher seemed to be engaged in a conversation with the person explaining what she was doing.

The police said the student who was being beaten up in the video could not remember multiplication tables.

The parents of seven-year-old, Mohammad Altamash, told Al Jazeera that the incident happened on Thursday in the Neha Public School in Kubbapur village.

“Yesterday, my son came home crying,” Rubina, his mother, said. “He was traumatised. This is not how you treat kids.”

According to his father Mohammad Irshad, the teacher “asked them [classmates] to slap my son one by one”.

“The teacher justified her actions by saying my son did not memorise his lessons.”

“My son is good at his studies. He takes tuitions. We fail to understand why the teacher treated him like this. It seems that the teacher is filled with hate,” the 42-year-old added.

Irshad, a farmer, said that the ill-treatment of his son was the result of “hate that is being spread against Muslims in the country”, illustrated by the teacher’s comments heard in the video.