Penang cops investigating student's punishment claims at school

Police are conducting further investigations into a report lodged by a secondary school student in Tasek Gelugor, Penang, who claimed she was told by a senior teacher to kneel with her hands up as punishment during a school assembly on Wednesday.

Sebarang Perai Utara District police chief Mohd Radzi Ahmad said the 13-year-old teenager lodged the report at 10.43pm and claimed that she was punished for wearing the shoes with velcro straps, had her holy string cut, was asked to remove sacred ash from her forehead and the traditional black dot (pottu)...