A 13-year-old girl studying in Class 6 died on Friday , almost a week after she was allegedly forced to perform 100 sit-ups as punishment for arriving late at her school in Maharashtra’s Palghar district, PTI reported.

The incident took place on November 8 at Shri Hanumant Vidya Mandir in Vasai (East) and the girl died on Friday night at Mumbai’s JJ Hospital, The Times of India reported.

The girl’s family said that she and a few other students had been punished for being about ten minutes late to school, the newspaper reported.

Her mother was quoted as saying by the PTI that when the child returned home on November 8 evening she was complaining of severe neck and back pain and was unable to move freely. Her condition worsened rapidly and she had difficulty breathing after whic

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