India, Dec. 27 -- Enforcing discipline in schools should begin with teachers first, the Supreme Court observed in a recent case filed by a Kerala teacher who challenged an order suspending him for staging a 'satyagraha' outside the school in protest against the management's misdeeds.

Agreeing to consider the teacher's plea for reinstatement, a bench of justices Abhay S Oka and Augustine George Masih criticised the teacher, K Shahul Hameed, for his conduct and agreed to entertain his appeal on the sole condition that he files an undertaking never to repeat such acts in future.

"If you enforce discipline on students, you should yourself be disciplined and you are sitting outside the school," the court said.

Hameed worked as a lab assista...