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Bidar case includes both misuse of law and authorities high-handedness
The action taken by the police against an independent school in Bidar district of Karnataka must rank amongst the worst instances of the abuse of the sedition arrangement in chastening law in current times. Teams of cops personnel have actually been visiting the Shaheen School for some days now, and they have actually currently apprehended a teacher and a moms and dad up until now, for an apparently seditious and inflammatory play against the Citizenship (Change) Act, in which it is claimed some remarks supposedly insulting to the Prime Minister were made. It boggles the mind that the police would lose their time in pursuing a grievance by a conservative activist about a play performed by kids in between the ages of 9 and12 That primary schoolchildren are undergoing sustained harassment with utter disregard for child-friendly laws and procedures is an egregious violation that the cops seem to be dedicating with impunity. The arrest of a teacher who is said to have su