Nine arrested for ransacking Christian school in Ujjain
UJJAIN (MP): Nine persons were arrested on Friday for allegedly ransacking a missionary school following the death of two children in a road accident at Barnagar near here, police said.
On the complaint by the school's principal, they were arrested for damaging furniture and breaking windowpanes at St Thomas H S School on Thursday, Superintendent of Police Jaideep Prasad said.
Some Hindu activists attacked the school and accused it of creating a traffic hazard for children by keeping one of its gates closed. They brought down a portion of its wall, damaging some statues after Nikita (four) and Krishnpal (six), were hit by a truck and killed when they were on way to the school, police said.
Mild force was used to disperse the crowd on Thursday, they said.
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Nine arrested for ransacking Ujjain school
Rubina Khan Shapoo
Friday, February 9, 2007 (Ujjain):
Nine people have been arrested in Ujjain after a mob of 150 people ransacked the St Thomas Higher Secondary School on Thursday. The police had to use force to control the crowd.
The mob beat up the father of the school, tore down a wall, broke furniture and window panes after two school children were run over by a truck near the school.
They claimed the accident happened because the school kept one of its gates closed.
The nine arrested include the local Shiv Sena president, a Bajrang Dal leader and a BJP leader. They have been booked for rioting.
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