New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday summoned Police Commissioner of Delhi BS Bassi and ordered a strict action in the Christian school vandalism in South Delhi.
It is the third time when churches had been attacked but first time in the recent past that a school has been vandalised here.
PM Modi had ordered Bassi to take strict action against attack on minorities come down hard on those involved in the incident.
He had been also ordered to form a special team to probe incidents.
The PM summoned Bassi hours after Union Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani, an alumnus of the institution, visited the Holy Child Auxilium School in south Delhi’s Vasant Vihar and urged Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh to look into the matter.
Delhi Chief Minister-designate Arvind Kejriwal has also condemned the attack.
Notify that an unidentified group ransacked Holy Child Auxilium School here earlier in the day.
Staff members of the school told police that a few CCTV cameras installed in the school premises were damaged and the office of the principal was ransacked.
Delhi Catholic Archdiocese spokesperson Father Savarimuthu Sankar said, “Some CCTV cameras were damaged and the office of the school principal was ransacked by some unidentified people early Friday.”
Sankar said school children have been sent back to their homes after the incident came to light.
Meanwhile, Bassi said that an initial investigation has shown that it was a case of theft and not religious-oriented desecration.
Bassi said, “Money was stolen from a donation box in the school premise. This is a case of theft, not a matter of desecration.”
Bureau Report
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