Police resorted to lathicharge on National Students’ Union of India (NSUI) members who were protesting outside St Jude’s school for the implementation of Right to Education Act in the school.
Four NSUI members injured in police lathicharge were admitted in the hospital. School Principal Violet Gardner has written a letter to SSP Kewal Khurana seeking action against NSUI activists who misbehaved and manhandled school officials and created law and order problem.
The NSUI members led by Vineet Bhatt assembled outside the school and raised slogans against school administration for failing the students studying in Classes I to VIII. According to them, students in these classes can not be failed under RTE Act.
They alleged that school does not implement RTE Act. The NSUI members argued with school officials and later with police. Patelnagar Circle Officer Jaya Baloni rushed to the school when situation started deteriorating. Police restored to lathi charge when the protesters tried to take the law in their hands.
later, NSUI members led by its State president Sandeep Kumar met the SSP Kewal Khurana and complained about the lathicharge on its members. According to him, school officials had misbehaved with and manhandled the NSUI members.
He sought thorough inquiry over this issue.