STUDENTS BARELY ESCAPE AS HINDUTVA MOB ATTACKS ST JOSEPH SCHOOL IN INDIA

Tue 07 December 2021:

On Monday, members of the right-wing Bajrang Dal, together with hundreds of villagers, were seen barging into a school in Madhya Pradesh and flinging stones at the premises, saying that the Christian Missionary institution was converting pupils to Christianity. The incident occurred when Class 12 students were studying for a mathematics exam.

The St Joseph School in Vidisha district’s Ganj Basoda town was targeted when reports surfaced on social media that the management had converted as many as eight kids.

A large mob gathered outside the school, shouting anti-administration slogans, according to cell phone footage. A police officer was seen attempting to disperse the crowd. The youngsters and school employees who were present narrowly avoided being killed.

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Recounting the panic as the mob threw stones at the glass windows, a student said, “Our concentration was broken, we want the exam to be held again”.

The manager of the school, Brother Antony, has claimed that he received the information of the attack a day earlier through local media, after which he alerted the police and the state administration. He accused the police of not making proper security arrangements.

He also denied the claims of religious conversion, claiming that none of the names mentioned in the complaint matches with any of the students.

The leader of the local Bajrang Dal unit, Nilesh Agrawal, demanded a thorough probe into the alleged religious conversion. “If the school’s involvement is found, it should be bulldozed,” he said.

Students Barely Escape As Right-Wing Mob Attacks Madhya Pradesh School

NDTV’s Anurag Dwary reports

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Security arrangements were made at other missionary schools in the area after the incident.

The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights had earlier written to the Vidisha district collector, seeking a probe into the allegations against the school.

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