Clerical Error: Here Is The Fact About The Suspension Of Three Muslim Teachers In Rajasthan's Kota (Screen Grab on X Ghazala Ahman @ghazalaahmad5)For the past few days, the suspension of three Muslim teachers from the school of Rajasthan’s Kota district following the allegation of love jihad and forced conversion has been in the news. The students subsequently carried out a protest march demanding the reinstatement of their teachers. They denied all the allegations levelled against their teachers terming them false.
It is now revealed that a clerical error in an admission form was the proof for the suspension of the Muslim teachers from the schools, according to a report published by the news portal The Scroll. The incident that led to the suspension occurred on February 5 when a 18-year-old Hindu girl eloped with a 21-year-old Muslim man. Following the incident, some locals accused three Muslim teachers in the school where the eloped Hindu girl studied, of facilitating religious conversion and promoting love Jihad. The girl had passed out of the school two years ago.
Based upon a memorandum submitted by a local Hindu group, the Sarva Hindu Samaj, the education ministry suspended three Muslim teachers from the school. The Hindu outfit in their allegation cited the girl’s admission form filled out in 2019, marking her religion mistakenly. The form was not signed by the suspended teachers. It was signed by the principal and the student’s father. However, the clerical error reportedly led to the suspension of three Muslim teachers. Along with the Hindu group, the father of the girl also blamed the teachers saying that they planned to change his daughter’s religion for years.
The main point of the allegations was the admission form stating her religion as Muslim. But the teachers rejected the allegations saying that none of the incidents were conspiracy. Firoz Khan, one of the suspended teachers says that it was a clerical error. “Either the girl filled out her form by copying from the forms of her classmates, or the teacher who filled it confused her with other students. In any case, there was no conspiracy. It was a clerical error. It went unnoticed,” he explained to the scroll.
He also noted that none of the subsequent documents of the girl were seen her religion as Muslim. The other teachers also dismissed the allegations saying that none of them was involved in religious activities in schools. Non-Muslim staff and teachers have also submitted their testimonies dismissing the allegations against the Muslim teachers.
However, the girl in the court also denied that the boy kidnapped her or that she converted to Islam. They had not married yet, according to the layer of the Muslim boy’s family, Ashfaq Ahmad.