The Blessed Mother Teresa English medium School of Kannepalli village in Mancherial district, which was in the spotlight last week for being vandalized by an alleged Hindu mob, was also booked for wantonly provoking people in a way that would lead to a riot (IPC S.153) and for deliberate and malicious intention of outraging religious feelings (S. 295A). The mob of attackers was booked under 10 charges, including 295A, promoting enmity between groups, and rioting.
A fact-finding mission by four Hyderabad-based social activists, who visited the incident site recently, has exposed more details of the incident.
“The mob forcibly applied tilak on the school manager, a clergyman, and made him wear a saffron stole and a mala, took him to the terrace and made him apologise on the microphone, and chant Jai Shri Ram,” the report by activists Khalida Parveen, S. Q. Masood, Sarah Mathews and Kaneez Fathima read.
