KATHMANDU: Kathmandu District Court on Tuesday remanded teacher Sita Laxmi Karmacharya arrested on the charge of making students cut their hands for scoring less in exams to seven days in custody.
A single bench of Judge Prakash Dhungana sent her to custody.
Karmacharya was arrested by a police team deployed from Metropolitan Police Circle, New Baneshwor on Saturday.
The teacher had made her 34 students of classes six and seven cut their hands with a blade for scoring less in the exams.
The Jadibuti-based Jagriti Academy had sacked the teacher after the incident was made public.
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