Uttar Pradesh Police have registered a first information report against the principal and a part-time teacher after the local unit of a Hindutva organisation claimed that “madrassa-type prayers” were being recited in a government school at Bareilly. https://thewire.in/communalism/bareilly-lab-pe-aati-hai-dua-principal-suspended-fir
Reports have said that the students had recited Mohammad Iqbal’s iconic Urdu poem ‘Lab pe aati hai dua‘. Iqbal is the writer of the famous song ‘Saare jahan se achha’.
The school principal, Nahid Siddiqui, of a government higher primary school located in Faridpur, has been suspended. A police investigation has been ordered against the part-time teacher Waziruddin, PTI has reported, quoting the local Basic Shiksha Adhikari Vinay Kumar. Waziruddin is a shiksha mitra or a ‘para teacher’.
Police have slapped sections 298 (deliberate intention to wound religious sentiments) and 153 (provocation with intent to cause riot) of the Indian Penal Code against the two.
by WIRE staff
23/12/2022