Students learning at a school in Maharashtra’s Ahmednagar district had been reprimanded by the faculty principal and threatened by the police for chanting ‘Jai Shri Ram’ slogans.
The faculty, Dada Patil College, is positioned in Ahmednagar’s Karjat and is run by Rayat Shikshan Sanstha. On September 25, a video from the faculty began making the rounds on the web.
Sharing the video on social media platform ‘X’ a social activist group, Legal Rights Observatory (LRO) wrote, “Rayat Shikshan Sanstha’s Dada Patil College, Karjat- Jay Shriram slogan banned, students reprimanded, punished n PI @NagarPolice threatened to issue tadipari of students if they repeat “Jay Shriram” on campus!”
Rayat Shikshan Sanstha’s Dada Patil College, Karjat- Jay Shriram slogan banned, students reprimanded, punished n PI @NagarPolice threatened to challenge tadipari of students in the event that they repeat “Jay Shriram” on campus!
Principal Sanjay Nagarkar be instantly sacked n arrested for… pic.twitter.com/H6b7J1kj1N— Legal Rights Observatory- LRO (@LegalLro) September 25, 2023
As per the put up, the police inspector on the Nagar police station threatened the students chanting slogans of tadipari.
In a video shared by LRO, the students are seen sitting inside a room and being handled like criminals. The brief clip exhibits threats being issued to them. The authorized rights physique has demanded the instant sacking and arrest of the Hinduphobic principal, Nagarkar. They additionally requested the Nagar Police Superintendent of Police to behave swiftly in opposition to the erring police inspector.
Notably, this isn’t the one case the place Hindu students face punishments for chanting Jai Shri Ram slogans, carrying Kalawa, sporting Tilak and others, there’s a listing of such circumstances.
We have compiled fifteen such circumstances, a short of which may be learn beneath:
A brand new case was reported from Jammu & Kashmir, the place a instructor has been arrested for thrashing a minor for writing ‘Jai Shri Ram’. The instructor has been recognized as Farooq Ahmed. Whereas the minor was a pupil on the Government Higher Secondary School (Bani).
A case of how hurting somebody’s non secular and cultural sentiments can result in dying was reported in Jharkhand’s Dhanbad district. Where a 17-year-old Hindu woman killed herself after her instructor at Saint Xavier School insulted her in entrance of the entire college.
On July 20, stories of Hindu activists protesting exterior a missionary college in Bokaro, Jharkhand, got here out. The activists assembled exterior the varsity on July 18, after a minor Hindu boy was thrashed by the academics for carrying ‘Kalawa’ (a sacred thread). It is noteworthy that the accused is aided by authorities funds and is current virtually in each state of India, ‘The Carmel Convent’ college.
Shocking stories got here to mild from Jharkhand’s Bokaro district after, the principal of a missionary college suspended all the class on chanting ‘Jai Shri Ram’ slogans. Members of Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) demanded motion. However, the principal stated, the motion was taken in opposition to the indiscipline by the students, not for the slogan.
On July 25, a Hindu pupil was crushed up by Muslim classmates for placing Tilak on his brow within the Alwar district of Rajasthan. The incident occurred in a government-run college.
A poster of Hanumaji was torn by the varsity authorities at a Missionary college. The incident occurred on July 27 on the Our Lady of Pillar Convent School, Gangana Road, Pal village in Jodhpur.
A video went viral from Madhya Pradesh’s Rajgarh district, the place students had been scolded by the principal for chanting the Gayatri Mantra through the prayers. The college is a authorities CM Rise college. Following the video, the Department of Education has initiated a probe into the matter.
On August 24 this yr, a college instructor from Tamil Nadu named Udaya Lakshmi shared a Facebook put up (now deleted) whereby she boasted about forcefully eradicating the sacred thread (Kalawas) from the wrists of Hindu students.
Two instructors bodily attacked a Hindu pupil on August 26 on the Ujra Government School within the Chhatarpur area of Madhya Pradesh as a result of the coed was sporting a kada (sacred bracelet).
On August 27, a Hindu pupil was harassed by his class instructor for writing the sacred chant of ‘Jai Shri Ram’ on the blackboard at a neighborhood college within the Ujjain district of Madhya Pradesh.
Govt. college instructor Nisar Ahmed was suspended for bodily assaulting a minor woman pupil in Rajouri, J&Okay. The household of the minor stated that the beating was in relation to the coed turning up at college with a tilak on her brow, put after pooja at house amid the continued Navratri competition.
A case of non secular discrimination in opposition to a Hindu pupil named Pawan Sen by the hands of his Muslim instructor Nishat Begum has been reported from the Raisen district of Madhya Pradesh. The instructor at Government New Boys Secondary School, Garatganj allegedly used some Muslim boys from exterior the varsity to beat up the sufferer, an eighth customary pupil. His ‘crime’ was that even after objections from the instructor, he used to go to highschool carrying a Tilak.
In a surprising incident from the Betul district of Madhya Pradesh, a authorities instructor eliminated Kalawa from the fingers of Hindu students, saying they need to not go to the temple and shouldn’t supply prayers. He justified this act by saying that he promotes equal schooling with none non secular bias.
The particulars of different circumstances may be learn in this report by Organiser.
