India, Feb. 22 -- A Class 7 student was allegedly locked inside the washroom for about an hour at Greater Noida located private school in Sector Beta-1 on Thursday, prompting her family to urge the Gautam Budh Nagar administration and education department for a probe into the incident.

According to the student's father, a resident of Sector Beta 2, the incident took place during her lunch break, when the girl went to use the washroom on the school premises and someone allegedly locked the washroom's door from outside, leaving her trapped inside.

"She could come out after around an hour when a school staff member, a nanny, opened the washroom door," the father informed HT.

While expressing "gratitude" towards the school staff member who...