Hyderabad, Feb. 14 -- A disturbing incident emerged in Bihar's Kishanganj district where a teacher reportedly asked a 12th-grade female student to enter into a romantic relationship with him as a form of "guru dakshina" (honorarium).

According to the reports, the Kisan High School teacher Vikas Kumar has allegedly harassed the teenager multiple times in the past. He had also proposed a trip to Siliguri in West Bengal.

The Bihar teacher had told the student to be his "girlfriend" and cited the example of Ekalavya, a character from the Hindu epic Mahabharata who offered his thumb to his guru (teacher) Dronacharya. The student alleged that the teacher questioned her, "why the student could not become his girlfriend as a similar act of devo...