In another incident of Islamophobia in India, a teacher who gave the ‘Azaan’ during the assembly was suspended.
According to Indian media reports, the police said that a private school in Kandivali, a suburb of Mumbai, was allegedly given the ‘Azaan’ over a loudspeaker during assembly hours at 7 am.
Later, parents of students and workers of political parties gathered outside the school and staged a protest.
BJP MLA Yogesh Sagar, who participated in the protest, claimed that it was deliberate, not accidental and that the school management was trying to save the teacher responsible.
Police say they are investigating but no case has been registered yet, they told the media that according to the school principal, the teacher who called the call to prayer over the loudspeaker has been suspended.
In the statement given to the school principal, the police further said that Azaan was given in the school to teach religious harmony and tolerance to the children, students from class 4 to 10 participated in the assembly while Saraswati Puja, Ganapati Puja and Navratri Puja were also performed in the school. is held.
He promised and added that we promise that this will not happen from now on while the teacher responsible for the incident has been suspended.
Deputy Commissioner of Police Ajay Kumar Bansal says that we have received a complaint today in Kandivali that azaan is given in the morning assembly in a school but it is being investigated.
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