Muzaffarnagar (UP), Aug 26 : A purported video has gone viral on social media showing a school teacher in Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar asking Hindu students to slap a fellow student from the minority community inside a classroom.

A video of the heinous incident which has gone viral on social media shows the students taking turns to slap their classmate as the boy stands there crying in humiliation and pain while the primary school teacher, identified as Tripta Tyagi, keeps egging his classmates to continue the assault.

"I have declared jitne bhi Mohammedan bachhe hai (all the Muslim students here)..." the teacher can clearly be heard in the video as she encourages other students hit the boy with more force. "Why don't you hit him with force," Tyagi tells one of the students after he hits the boy.  "Hit him in the gut, hit harder," Tyagi is heard telling the students as they take turns to slap the kid.  According to reports, the incident took place at primary school in Khabbarpur village of Muzaffarnagar district.