New Delhi  - An 11-year-old girl died in New Delhi Friday after being tortured by her schoolteacher apparently for not doing her homework, news reports and officials said.

Shanno Khan fell unconscious soon after being punished at the government-run school in the Bawana area in Delhi on Wednesday and was admitted at a hospital.

Parents of the class-two student alleged that she slipped into a coma after her teacher banged her head and made her stand out in the sun for two hours.

Shanno was put on life-support but succumbed to the injuries on Friday afternoon, doctors said.

The NDTV network reported that Shanno was apparently brutally punished for not doing her homework. Other media reports said the teacher punished her as she had failed to recite the alphabet properly.

"Police have not yet registered a complaint in the matter. The teacher and the principal have been suspended by the authorities but this will not bring our daughter back," Shanno's father, Mohammed Ayub Khan, told reporters.

The incident sparked a furore in the Indian capital with the Federal Minister for Women and Child Development Renuka Chowdhury saying strict action will be taken against the school authorities. Corporal punishment is banned in India.

"What a terrible tragedy. How sad that an innocent child had to die like this. It is high time we take cognizance of such incidents," she said.

The Delhi Commission for Protection of Child Rights chairman Amod Kanth told the IANS news agency that the panel was going to ask the school and education authorities for an explanation and for submitting a report on the issue.(dpa)