Courtroom drama: Teacher slaps cop

Ranchi: Sapphire International School's Hindi teacher Nazia Hussain slapped a police constable who stopped her from speaking to the media at Sadar medical hospital. Hussain was at the hospital with her 16-year-old son Sharif Ansari (name changed), husband Arif Ansari and daughter Aaliya (name changed) for mandatory medical check-up before production in a local court.
"The police have beaten all of us and forced us to confess to the crime. Neither I nor any member of my family is involved in the case. The entire police theory is cooked up," Nazia told media persons when she was going inside the hospital.
The woman in her late 30s ripped off the veil police and created a scene at the hospital. "All of us will commit suicide. There is no other way left for us. Our entire family is ruined," she said.
The woman was forced by a group of police personnel including several women inside the hospital. Nazia, who has been working at the school for several years, repeated her claim while coming out of the hospital.
Hatia ASP Prashant Anand said, "Nazia tried to snatch the revolver of a police officer, who was escorting her in the medical check up , to kill herself but she failed."
Later all the four accused were produced in the court of a local judicial magistrate from where they were sent to jail, the minors were sent to remand home on 14 days judicial custody. In the court, the woman claimed that the police had forced them to speak the language of the police.
Ranchi SSP Kuldeep Dwivedi said the police have not forced any of them to give a convenient answer. "They have been arrested on the basis of solid evidence which will be produced in the court during the investigation," Dwivedi said.