Author: PTI
Publication: The Times of India
Date: September 25, 2008
URL: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Cities/School_staff_held_with_faith_handouts/articleshow/3528164.cms
[Note from the Hindu Vivek Kendra: Can we
now understand the arrogance of the proselytisation machinery that such efforts
continue to happen even in a climate of extreme tension on the issue? Will
the secularist take cognisance of this blatant effort to create communal disharmony?
The answer to the second question is a big NO, because the Hindu reaction
was muted. If there was a violence as a reaction, then the secularists will
condmen the violence only.]
Five staff of a school in Chennai, including
its principal, have been arrested for distributing pamphlets "propagating"
Christianity and "degrading" Hindu gods in the city following complaints
by the BJP and Hindu Makkal activists.
Police said a group, including students, of
East Coast Christian Matriculation School in Neelankarai had come on a tour
to Udhagamandalam and the city on Tuesday night and parked their vehicle at
Corporation grounds on Crosscut road.
As the students and some teachers left for
shopping, the five persons started distributing pamphlets "propagating"
Christianity and reportedly "denigrating" Hindu Gods, they said.
Some BJP and Hindu Makkal Katchi activists
came at the spot and handed them over to police demanding registration of
non-bailable case of attempt to create communal hatred, police said.
They were produced before a court on Wednesday
afternoon and sent to 15-day judicial remand, they said.
Meanwhile, the students and some teachers,
who returned from shopping, were later sent to Udhagamandalam and from there
they had left for Chennai, they added.
