How a play & an elopement led to suspension of 3 Muslim teachers in Kota, sparked communal tension

Posted on:
Key Points

Shes been like this since 5 February, when a Hindu woman from her village stormed up to her doorstep to inform her that her 21-year-old grandson Lucky Ali had eloped with the latters 18-year-old daughter Muskan Gaur, she tells ThePrint..

A school in the village the Government Senior Secondary School, Khajuri Odpur has been in the middle of a blazing row after allegations of religious conversion flew around on the back of a play it had staged for Republic Day.. Muskan, according to school records, was a student there until 2022, when she cleared her Class 12..

The suspended teachers, too, have denied any wrongdoing, claiming to ThePrint that they had been targeted over their Muslim identities, with one even saying that the elopement was being used to torment the school...

School teachers are also involved in this, he said.. Shivraj Gaur, Muskans uncle, speaking outside the family home | Krishan Murari | ThePrint..

However, its not only the schools principal and its suspended teachers that have rejected the conversion allegations, in a letter to the district education officer, the schools remaining 12 teachers, too, have dismissed it...