"Go To Pakistan", Karnataka Teacher Asks Muslim Students, Inquiry Initiated
Manjula Devi, a government school teacher in Karnataka has been transferred after being accused of allegedly asking two Muslim students of her class to “go to Pakistan”, reported the Indian Express.
The action was taken against the teacher following a complaint given by Shivamogga JD(S) (Janata Dal Secular) leader A Nazrullah.
According to the complaint, Manjula Devi was teaching Class 5 students on Thursday when two of her students began arguing each other among themselves. She then allegedly said them “this is not your country”, say reports.
The teacher told the students that , “India is not your country. This a country of Hindus. You should go to Pakistan”, reads the complaint filed by A Nazrullah.
The students returned home after school and reported the incident to their parents, who then informed the local leaders.
Other students of the class confirmed the incident, Hindustan Times quoted B. Nagaraj, Block Education Officer. “The teacher reportedly said to the students: ‘This is not your country; this is the country of Hindus. You should go to Pakistan. You are our slaves forever”, Nagraj said.
The block educational officer has submitted a report and the teacher has been transferred in punishment.
A case was registered against the teacher on August 26 under sections 323 (punishment for voluntarily causing hurt) and 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace) of the Indian Penal Code on the complaint of the victim’s family.
The incident comes a week after the Uttar Pradesh Police registered a case against a private school teacher accused of making communal comments and encouraging her students to slap their Muslim classmate for not being able to recite a multiplication table in Muzaffarnagar district.
A similar incident has been registered under Delhi police in which a teacher has been charged for disrespectful communal remarks on Muslim students while being inside the classroom.
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