The Delhi Police has filed a case against a school for allegedly pasting a poster supporting former deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia who has been arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in the excise policy case. The BJP had earlier claimed that Delhi government had set up "I love Manish Sisodia" desks in state-run schools.
According to the FIR filed by the police, SMC coordinator Gazala, in connivance with the principal of Sarvodaya Kanya Vidayalaya in Shastri Park, asked the girl students to arrange some desks at the school entrance and pasted a large poster of Sisodia at the main gate on Friday morning.
Local residents protested as the banner was being put up, following which a case was registered against Gazala under section 3 of the Delhi Prevention of Defacement of Public Property Act, police said. The principal is in-charge of the school and provided the desks, the FIR said.
"Complaints have been received in Delhi about the use of children by setting up stalls outside schools for the defense of liquor scam accused detained in jail and glorification of criminals in the soft minds of children," Priyank Kanoongo, the chairperson of National Commission for Protection of Child Rights’s (NCPCR) had said.
Earlier, BJP leader Manoj Tiwari wrote to NCPCR's Priyank Kanoongo against several people including AAP’s Atishi and Member of Education Task Force Shailesh. Based on the complaint, the chairperson has written to the Delhi Chief Secretary and Commissioner of Police to file an FIR against Atishi and take action against her for allegedly posting pictures of children without their parents/guardian's consent and misusing children for “personal agendas”.
A Delhi court on Saturday extended by two days the CBI custody of Sisodia and directed the central probe agency to produce him on Monday
(With PTI inputs)
