India, July 13 -- A video of a district magistrate in Madhya Pradesh has gone viral on social media, showing him slapping a student multiple times during an exam.

The incident happened on April 1 at the Deendayal Dangraulia Mahavidyalaya in MP's Bhind district, though the video has surfaced on social media more than three months later.

Bhind DM Sanjeev Srivastava slapped a BSc second-year student, identified as Rohit Rathore, multiple times during the college's mathematics exam.

Srivastava was seen dragging Rathore out of his chair after confronting him. He had a paper in his hand and slapped the student repeatedly, as seen in the video. Another video showed him taking the student to what looked like a staff room, handing over the pape...