A Karnataka teacher who allegedly told two Muslim students at a Shivamogga government school to “go to Pakistan” has been transferred. The Karnataka Department of School Education and Literacy has launched a departmental inquiry against the woman who has denied the allegations.
The teacher, identified as Manjula Devi, allegedly told the two Class 5 students at the Tipu Nagar School, “This is not your country; this is the country of Hindus. You should go to Pakistan. You are our slaves forever.”
A. Nazrullah, the president of Janata Dal (Secular) minority wing in Shivamogga, who lodged a complaint with Shivamogga Deputy Director of Public Instruction (DDPI), told Hindustan Times, “We were shocked after the children told us about the incident.”
Shivamogga DDPI Parameshwarappa C.R. Told The Indian Express, “We received the complaint on Thursday. Action was initiated against the teacher based on a preliminary inquiry by the block education officer.”
This comes less than two weeks after a viral video from a school in Uttar Pradesh’s Muzaffarnagar showed a teacher forcing students to slap their eight-year-old Muslim classmate. Following the August 24 incident, the state police filed a case against the teacher, identified as Tripta Tyagi, and the school was shut down.
In another incident oan August 27, four students at a Delhi school alleged that their teacher asked them why their families did not go to Pakistan during the Partition. Based on complaints lodged by their family members, Delhi Police had registered a case against Hema Gulati, a teacher at Government Sarvodaya Bal Vidyalaya in Gandhi Nagar area.