The National Human Rights Commission has taken suo motu cognizance of a media report that some teachers beat with chappals class tenth students of the Kendriya Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya and called them as Naxalites in Barsoor, District Dantewada, Chhattisgarh. They also rusticated them for ten days.

The Commission has observed that the contents of the press report, if true, raise serious issue of human rights violation of the students and issued notice to the District Magistrate, Dantewada calling for a report into the allegations made in the media report within 3 weeks.

Reportedly, there was some quarrel between the two groups of students, which infuriated the teachers.