Pune principal’s assault: No evidence of ‘forced’ Christian prayers, complainant backtracks too https://www.newslaundry.com/2023/07/13/pune-principals-assault-no-evidence-of-forced-christian-prayers-complainant-backtracks-too Prateek Goyal 13 Jul, 2023 A video of the July 4 assault had gone viral on social media.
Last week, media and social media was flooded with reports on the Christian principal of a school in Pune being thrashed for purportedly forcing students to recite Christian prayers. Alexander Coates Reed, principal of DY Patil High School in Talegaon, was also accused of installing CCTVs in the girls’ toilet. .. But days later, the Pimpri-Chinchwad police, which has jurisdiction over the area, said it had found no evidence of students being forced to “recite Christian prayers”. The police also said the CCTVs were not installed inside the toilets but in the common areas near the wash basins in both the girls’ and boys’ washrooms...