Three VHP leaders in Kerala have been arrested for allegedly threatening teachers over Christmas celebrations at a school in Palakkad.
The arrested persons are VHP Palakkad district secretary K Anil Kumar, district samyojak Susasanan and Nalleppilly panchayat president K Velayudan. A court remanded them to judicial custody on Saturday, said police.
According to police, when students and teachers of the Government Upper Primary School at Nallepilly in Palakkad were taking part in Christmas celebrations on Friday after the end of the semester exam, the three men came into the school.
It is alleged on the FIR that the accused persons entered the school with a motive to create enmity among different communities on the basis of religion.
The men questioned the head teacher, Jayanthi, and other teachers at the school and allegedly used abusive language against them. They asked the teachers why Krishna Janmashtami is not celebrated instead of Christmas and wanted to know why teachers were wearing Santa Claus attire.
The accused VHP leaders were booked under BNS sections 329 (3), 296 (b) and 351 (2) and 132, said police. The school’s PTA president K Muraleedharan said such an incident should not have happened at a school in Kerala.
“We hope that this will be the first and last such protest at a school,” he said.
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