MP: Probe ordered in opposition to private college after posters of hijab-clad Hindu and Jain faculty college students surfaced

A critical controversy erupted in Damoh district of Madhya Pradesh after it was claimed {{that a}} private college is forcing faculty college students to placed on a “hijab.” The accusations had been made following the publication of an industrial for Ganga Jamuna Higher Secondary School in Damoh on 31 May that featured meritorious faculty college students along with Hindu and Jain girls carrying headscarves that appeared like hijab.

Ganga Jamuna Higher Secondary School is a private, English-medium established in ward amount 4 of the Futera neighbourhood throughout the Damoh space. The names of fantastic faculty college students from the school, every ladies and boys, had been listed on the posters that had been doing the rounds on social media. Three of the eighteen had been boys, whereas the remainder had been girls. Four of the fifteen girls had been from the Jain and Hindu communities and all of them had been sporting hijabs, or head scarves, on their heads.

The District Magistrate (DM) Mayank Agarwal, nonetheless, dismissed the charges, alleging that that they had been straightforward misinformation and that there was nothing untoward discovered in the midst of the preliminary inquiries. In response to the tweet, the Superintended on Police (SP) Damoh commented that “the allegations were not proved on the investigation.”

जांच पर आरोप सिद्ध नहीं हुए

— SP Damoh MP (@SP_DAMOHMP) May 30, 2023

The official then posted that an inquiry committee has been formed beneath the chairmanship of Tehsildar Damoh throughout the case and it has been directed to submit its report.

गंगा जमना स्कूल के टॉपर वाले पोस्टर के मामले में तहसीलदार दमोह की अध्यक्षता में जांच समिति गठित की गई है।

जांच समिति को अपनी रिपोर्ट प्रस्तुत करने के निर्देश दिए गए हैं@ChouhanShivraj @mohdept @JansamparkMP pic.twitter.com/z0sM6IxrGI

— Collector Damoh (@CollectorDamoh) May 31, 2023

Priyank Kanoongo, the highest of the National Commission for the Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) tweeted, “A complaint has been received about a school in Madhya Pradesh’s Damoh district forcing Hindu and other non-Muslim girls to wear burqas and hijabs in the name of school uniforms. Cognizance of this is being taken and instructions are being sent to Collector Damoh and Superintendent of Police, Damoh for necessary action.”

मध्यप्रदेश के दमोह ज़िले में एक स्कूल द्वारा हिंदू और अन्य ग़ैर मुस्लिम बच्चियों को स्कूल यूनीफ़ॉर्म के नाम पर जबरन बुर्का व हिजाब पहनाये जाने की शिकायत प्राप्त हुई है।
इसका संज्ञान लिया जा रहा है एवं आवश्यक कार्यवाही हेतु @CollectorDamoh व पुलिस अधीक्षक दमोह को निर्देश प्रेषित…

— प्रियंक कानूनगो Priyank Kanoongo (@KanoongoPriyank) May 30, 2023

The NCPCR chief took discover of the state of affairs and yesterday despatched a uncover (amount DD6270) to the DM in the hunt for an movement report inside each week.

हिंदू और अन्य ग़ैर मुस्लिम बच्चों को इस्लामिक प्रथाओं का अभ्यास करवाना भारत के संविधान के अनुच्छेद 28 का उल्लंघन है,नोटिस भेज रहे हैं कलेक्टर को ..@brajeshabpnews https://t.co/vZqmHwSaeV

— प्रियंक कानूनगो Priyank Kanoongo (@KanoongoPriyank) May 31, 2023

According to the uncover, the principal areas which could be to be appeared into are whether or not or not the school had the authorisation to permit hijabs as a robe code, the films of students reciting spiritual prayers found by the payment, the violation of Article 28(3) of the Indian Constitution by the school administration and the monetary help obtained by the institution.

Copy of the uncover issued by the NCPCR to the DM Damoh. (Source: Organiser)

Article 28(3) mentions that nobody that’s attending an institution recognised by the State, or that is receiving help from state funds shall be requested to indulge in any spiritual instruction that might be imparted in any such institution.

“In the matter of Hindu girls being shown in hijab in Ganga Jamuna School in Damoh, the District Education Officer and the local police officer investigated the matter but found nothing. However, in view of the seriousness of the matter, the Superintendent of Police has been instructed to thoroughly investigate the entire matter,” educated state Home Minister, Dr Narottam Mishra.

दमोह स्कूल मामले में गृह मंत्री @drnarottammisra ने भी जाँच करायी है, स्कूल को क्लीन चिट मिल गई @KanoongoPriyank https://t.co/DNtVTcIqXL pic.twitter.com/5TkUom64n5

— Brajesh Rajput (@brajeshabpnews) May 31, 2023

The college administration immediately eradicated the banner from the developing as quickly as its {{photograph}} went viral on social media.

Images current the poster was far from the school developing later. (Source: Organiser)

Notably, Hindu organisations have been protesting in opposition to the school administration since 2021. They claimed that the pupils had been taught as if the school was a Madrasa. Hindu girls had been made to placed on hijab and boys had been instructed strategies to recite namaz. The college administration has not however been subject to any approved movement.

School footage of students uploaded by lecturers on Facebook and Instagram reveal that the females are donning the hijab on sports activities actions day and by no means all of them belong to the Muslim group. Their heads are coated throughout the annual class photographs which could be shared on Facebook. Those who didn’t positioned on hijabs saved a dupatta on their heads.

Picture of the school sports activities actions event. (Source: Organiser)

The yearly {{photograph}}. (Source: Organiser)

The faculty college students might be seen singing Muhammad Iqbal additionally known as Allama Iqbal’s poems like Sare Jahan Se Accha and Lab Pe Aai Hai Dua in footages. The girls are carrying hijabs they often start their recitation with an Islamic greeting.

Damoh, Madhya Pradesh: Poster’s of Hindu girls carrying Hijab put in outside a pvt college are circulating broadly on the internet since morning.

Expecting strict movement throughout the matter @KanoongoPriyank Sir.

Here are some clips from the school events, poems of Allama Iqbal: pic.twitter.com/uxTWGXupGl

— Subhi Vishwakarma (@subhi_karma) May 31, 2023

Girls are decked out in inexperienced, white, and saffron hijabs at 2022 Independence Day celebrations. Dupattas are worn on the heads by those who often usually are not coated with the hijab.

A woman might be heard welcoming the function’s chief customer, MP Tiwari, along with the school’s director, Haji Mohammad Idri, the vice chairman of the Ganga Jamna Welfare Society, Haji Abdul Razzaq, and the cashier of the Ganga Jamna Society, Haji Mohammad Mushtaq.

Sixty per cent of the students enrolled on the college are Hindus, and their mom and father have no objections to the affiliation, per Station House Officer Damoh Kotwali, Vijay Singh Rajput, who visited the school on May 31 along with District Education Officer (DEO), Santosh Mishra. He acknowledged that the poster had been taken down as soon as they arrived on the college.

Onkar Singh and Dr Nivedita Sharma, two Madhya Pradesh State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (MPSCPCR) members, moreover voiced doubts on the aforementioned scenario. The latter talked about, “SCPCR is receiving such complaints from across the state. I myself have gone to many places, and the government has also taken action at its level. An investigation of some is going on, and in some cases, the commission has also written to the government, and notices have also been issued to such institutions. In this case, we will also find out the real truth.”

“I have such evidence that proves that Hindu girl students have been presented in the flex imposed by the school management. Posters were pasted on the walls of this school. In this case, the members of the commission will also go to the school and meet the girls,” added the earlier.

Hindu groups protested outside the district collector’s office, proclaiming that the school compels Hindu female pupils to placed on the hijab. They submitted a memorandum demanding the cancellation of the school’s registration.

“Your officers have probably been bought. The police removed this board in the night. Under whose pressure are you,” Vishva Hindu Parishad’s Central India Prant Prachar Pramukh Jitendra Singh Chauhan wrote to Collector Damoh. Sharing the poster he requested, “Respected sir, what do you have to say about this poster? This is on the wall of the school, even after all of this, if the administration closes its eyes, then it is love for a particular religion,” he asserted.

Meanwhile, the allegations have been refuted by the school’s proprietor, Mustaq Khan, who insisted that the headscarf was part of the robe code and that no person was compelled to placed on it.

It is crucial to note that Hindu activists have already expressed their displeasure with the school and its imposed spiritual practices. The DM obtained a memorandum from VHP members once more in September 2021.

They reported that faculty college students at Ganga Jamna School are coerced into receiving an coaching alongside Madarsa strains. The college mandated the ladies to cowl up with the hijab and ordered the boys to provide namaz. Verses from the Quran had been written in Arabic contained in the classroom. The doc highlighted fairly a number of comparable points, nonetheless as of now, nothing has been completed in opposition to the school administration.