Sit-ups (punishment)

The sit-ups punishment (Uthak Baithak) is a form of punishment given in schools of Indian subcontinent, specially in India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Pakistan. In this punishment, one has to sit down and stand up continuously and count the number of sit-ups. Students do sit-ups while holding their ears with their hands. It is common in schools. For humiliation, it is done in front of other students. Normally given in the range of 10-300 sit up for boys and 10-200 sit up for girls.

Variants

There are many forms of this punishment.

Simple Situps

The punished student will do situps holding his ears. The hands should be ninety degrees with the body. Also he/she has to count loudly with every step. If the count is not hearable the term will repeat. Every term he/she has to sit fully so that his back touch the heals and to stand straight and if it is not so, he/she will have to start from the beginning.

Criss-Cross Earholding

The punished will hold his/her left ear with right hand and right ear with left hand and do sit ups(In back of head) . This may cause hardness, pain and humiliation to the punishment. It is widely implemented.

Pairing Situps

There will be more than one punished and they will hold ears of one another and do the situps. This makes the punishment more hard as the punished have to take weight of the other. Also criss-cross earholding can be applied here. Then it will be much harder to complete.

Situps touching heals

It is also variant used with the simple situps. Here the punished's heals should touch one another. This will cause friction between the knees for that he/she can fall. Criss-cross earholding can be applied here..

Doing sit up in sun

Doing situps in the sun is very hard to perform. There can be any form of sit ups as holding ears and doing, cris cross ear holding, heel touching or pairing sit ups or all

Timed sit up

This is very severe can be imposed to force the punished to do situp non-stop with no or minimal rest. This can be combined with any of the above forms. if punished is failed to complete the prescribed number of situps in given time, he/she has to start the punishment from beginning over again or rest number of situp without dress. ( full naked )(only male student but sometimes lady students). timer can be set as below for prescribed numbers of situp. 30-- only 45 second 50-- less than 2 minutes 100 -- less than 4 minutes 200 -- less than 9 minutes 250 -- less than 12 minutes 300 -- less than 14 minutes 400 -- less than 19 minutes 500 -- less than 30 minutes ( very severe) And 1000 -- 1hour and 15 minutes only ( very very severe) This punishment is only male student.

Female student.. Timer can be set as below for prescribed number of situp. 30-- less than 1 minutes 50-- less than 2 minutes and 30 second. 100-- 5 minutes. 200-- 12 minutes. 300 -- 20 minutes. 400 -- 30 minutes. 500 -- 45 minutes. 1000 -- 2 hours.

Continuous non-stop sit-ups

He/She has to do sit-ups non-stop and continuously (strictly monitored and caned to avoid any cheating, (slow down or stopping) )until the punisher feels he/she has suffered sufficiently and instructed to stop.It is a most painful punishment. (Minimum sits up 200.)

See also

References
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    2. "Uthak-Baithak (Sit-Ups) Punishment". MythologicalFact. 2018-02-25.
    3. "Voices of Girls and Boys to end Violence Against children in South and Central Asia". Global Initiative to End All Corporal Punishment of Children. Archived from the original on 2014-10-25.
    4. "Students forced to do sit-ups on road". The Times of India. 2013-09-03.


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