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| Lucknow, Mar 10 (PTI) | |
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Four students of UP Sainik School have been arrested and sent to juvenile home for allegedly smearing colour on Chief Minister Mayawati's posters here during Holi. |
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The four, who are appearing for their XII board exams, were arrested on Holi night on charges of damaging public property and a case had been lodged against them under the Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act. They have beet sent to a reformatory home for juveniles, official sources said on Wednesday.While police claimed that the students were caught damaging the public property, school authorities alleged that the police was settling scores. "It doesn't seem that our students would do such an act," school spokesman K K Tiwari said.He said that on Holi night these students had gone out of the hostel to purchase some medicine. "While they were returning back, the students were stopped by police, who alleged that they had damaged posters of the CM and booked them on charges of damaging public property." "Why these students, who are meritorious and passed their high school examination with more than 85 per cent marks indulged in such activity. They are being framed by police," father of a student Rajkumar alleged. "With board examinations going on, our children are brought to school from juvenile home to appear in the examination. They are being treated like murderers," Rajkumar alleged. The bail application of the four students would be heard in juvenile court on Wednesday Rajkumar lamented that the career of the students, who had cleared NDA examination in their first attempt, had been ruined. Tiwari said that even if the students had damaged the poster, the police should have informed the school principal first."SO Sarojini Nagar is settling scores as his request for admission of a child in mid-session was turned down by the authorities," school sources alleged. |
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