India, Nov. 20 -- The Waliv police on Wednesday booked Mamta Yadav, a schoolteacher who forced a 13-year-old girl to do 100 sit-ups while carrying her school bag for arriving late, eventually leading to her death, for culpable homicide not amounting to murder.

Kajal Gaud, a Class 6 student at Shri Hanumant Vidyamandir High School in Vasai (East), was punished on November 8, along with nearly 50 other students who had arrived late. She returned home complaining of severe pain, and her condition worsened over the following days. She died on November 14.

"We are searching for Yadav and will arrest her," said a police officer from the Waliv police station. The FIR was registered after Kajal's father, Sikandar Gaur, filed a police complaint ...