# Kanpur Class 7 student complains teacher uses phone, later retracts 2026-08-14T18:08:01+00:00 | Governance | Indian Opinion Desk Corroboration: 2 independent outlets A Class 7 student from Civilian Vidyalaya in Kanpur Dehat's Rajpur block walked into a police outpost on Monday (August 10) to complain that his teacher, Saima Khan, spent class time on her phone instead of teaching, and that older students beat him. Police took the boy back to school, where a video showed Khan telling him, "We don't listen. Will thrash you right now." The video went viral, prompting the district basic education officer to issue show-cause notices to Khan and headmaster Anupam Kumar. Hours later, a second video surfaced in which the student, Madhav Mishra, said, "Madam aur school ki koi galti nahi hai... I went to the police outpost angry after a fight with Ayush." His mother also defended the school, saying children get proper teaching, food and uniform. The education department's notice remains in effect. ## Coverage - aajtak.in - tupaki.com This story was synthesised by AI from the 2 sources linked above. Updated: this story now draws on 2 sources. Last updated 2026-09-27T06:15:01+00:00. Tags: कानपुर देहात, माधव मिश्रा Canonical: https://indianopinion.org/kanpur-class-7-student-complains-teacher-uses-phone-later-retracts/ License: Summary and commentary (c) Indian Opinion, reusable with attribution. Facts belong to the linked sources. Cite: https://indianopinion.org/kanpur-class-7-student-complains-teacher-uses-phone-later-retracts/#story-in-brief Review state: restored archive article, accurate at time of publication, not offered to search indexes. How this brief was made: an AI model read the reports linked above and wrote this summary and analysis, which were published automatically. Published briefs are sampled every hour by an automated quality check; the editor verifies its findings and approves corrections, and corrected briefs carry a dated correction line. Stance labels are editorial classifications of how each outlet framed this story, assigned by the same model, not ratings of the outlets. We do no original reporting. Methodology: https://indianopinion.org/ai-use-policy/