The BJP-ruled Madhya Pradesh Home Minister Narottam Mishra has said that the state administra-tion is likely to carry out a ‘bulldozer operation’ against an English medium school, Ganga Jamuna School, administered by a Muslim, Haji Mohammad Idris Khan, for displaying a poster with girl student toppers in hijab.
Narottam Mishra has claimed that the accused, in-volved in the display of the poster, which he now twisted as ‘religious conversion’ in the school are being detained by the police.
Without elaborating much about the ongoing inves-tigation in the matter, the minister said the police was looking for those on the run.
A FIR against the school management was lodged a few days back.
“The investigation is still underway and the accused are being arrested one after another. The police have also launched a search for those on the run. Those involved in the case will not be spared and bulldozer action will also be carried out,” Mishra said, adding that “layers of crime are being peeled away one after another. Things will become clearer once the police completes its investigation.”
This incident has been taking new twists in poll-bound Madhya Pradesh. The leaders and ministers of the ruling BJP are accusing the officials, including the Damoh district collector, of being ‘biased’ in their investigation and are pushing for a high level inquiry into the matter. The BJP has also alleged that the incident has a ‘terror funding’ link.
Now, a fresh allegation has been made by the Na-tional Commission for Protection of Child Rights chairman Priyank Kanoongo, who claimed that the Ganga Jamuna School group was running a hostel in Bhopal which was also being used for alleged ‘reli-gious conversion’. It has demanded a probe into it.
The controversy broke out at the private English medium school Ganga Jamuna when a poster of topper students, including Hindu girls, wearing the hijab emerged. Amid allegations of ‘religious con-version’ and ‘terror funding’, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has ordered a high-level inquiry into the matter.—INP
