A woman teacher at a private coaching centre in Navi Mumbai allegedly beat up a 14-year-old student after the latter made mistakes in her mathematics homework, police said on Sunday. The incident took place on Friday evening.

The 35-year-old accused, working at the coaching centre in Ghansoli, allegedly beat up the student severely on her hands with a bamboo stick for mistakes in the homework, an official at Koparkhairane police station said quoting a complaint by the victim's parents.