The incident occurred yesterday in Toba Tek Singh town, 100 km from Lahore.
In a written complaint to the district education officer, the families of the girls said Shahida Parveen, a teacher of Sethanwala Government Girls Community Model School, had blackened the faces of Class IV students Laibah, Alia, Natasha, Rimsha and Alesha.
The complaint said the teacher had acted against the girls for not purchasing textbooks from the shop of her husband. It further alleged that the teacher had tortured the girls.
Earlier, the teacher forced each student to pay her Rs 200, the complaint said.
