‘Clean classrooms, make notes on Gandhi & Kalam’ — Madras HC order granting bail in school rioting case

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New Delhi: Make handwritten notes on Gandhis non-violence principles, A.P.J Abdul Kalams vision, and clean classrooms thats what the Madras High Court ordered four people accused of rioting and damaging property in a Tamil Nadu school to do last week...

They were also asked to spend time in the school library and e-library to prepare notes by handwritten (not less than four pages) on non-violation from excerpts of Mahatma Gandhi, educational schemes promoted by the former Chief Minister Mr. K..

Rayen, Muthupattan and P. Raja Shankar were charged with provisions related to rioting and damage to property, over a dispute at a school in Yercaud, Tamil Nadu, in August.They were part of a group of 13 suspects in the case.. In its order, the Madras HC said the accused must hand over their notes to the school principal with a direction to the school principal to host the said articles in the school website for one year...

According to the prosecution submission quoted in the court order, out of the 13 accused, two are cousins of the injured students, and the others are his friends who (are) alleged to have entered and damaged the school office and uttered obscene words and misbehaved with the girl students therein...

All 13 were charged under Sections 147 (rioting), 148 (rioting, armed with deadly weapon), 447 (criminal trespass), 294(b) (obscene acts and songs), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt) and 324 (voluntarily causing hurt by dangerous weapons) of the Indian Penal Code, along with Section 3 (punishment for committing mischief in respect of property) of the Tamil Nadu Public Property (Prevention of Damage and Loss) Act 1992...

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