Alexander Coates Reid, the principal of DY Patil High School in the Ambi neighbourhood of Pune, and two Christian teachers were fired on Thursday, July 6, after being accused of abusing students, trying to convert them to Christianity, and insulting Hinduism
Local Hindu groups also beat up the Principal when they found out that he had put CCTV cameras in the girls’ bathroom without telling the school administration or the parents.
Who is Alexander Coates Reid DY Patil High School principal who installed CCTV cameras in girl washroom
Location: Ambi, #Pune
This video is making rounds on SM. It is being claimed that DY Patil High School Principal, Alexander was thrashed by #Hindus for organizing #Christian prayers at the school
Sadly, this is partial truth. He had installed CCTV in girl student's washroom
— Siddhi Somani (@sidis28) July 6, 2023
Who install cctv in girl's washroom?🤷🏻♂️ And yet ppl are defending this fellow because it suits them https://t.co/vMAvsVdiSy
— The Hawk Eye (@thehawkeyex) July 6, 2023
The video of the event is making the rounds on social media. In it, the local Hindu groups can be seen following and beating the Principal of the well-known convent school. But the said video is being spread by Islamists and members of the left-liberal group, who say that Hindus in India were hurting the minority community on purpose.
The Islamists also say that the Hindus’ next “targets” are Christians, and they say that the Principal was beaten up just because he let Christian prayers be said at school, which is only partly true.
Islamists and leftists worked hard to forget to mention that the Principal, who has now been fired, put CCTV cameras in the bathrooms of girls in 8th grade and above. This was proven by VHP members. And that he was caught on school grounds abusing a woman parent.
Allegations of religious discrimination and misconduct unveiled
Students are made to read prayers from the Bible, and Hindu holidays are made to seem less important. It was found out about the event from both the school and the VHP members. One of the local VHP members, Santosh Dabhade, says that the whole thing started when the parents of a student at the school told the local Hindu groups that their daughter was being bullied and tortured at school. The parents also said that she was asked to move the school benches on purpose and that she was pinched on her lips and other parts of her body.
“We went to the school to check on the case and then discovered that the school had installed CCTV cameras in the washrooms of the grown-up girl students. The parents were already furious and later it was also discovered that the school furthered the Christian way of life. The students there are forced to read prayers from the Bible during the assembly. The Hindu festivals are demeaned and insulted,” he said.
Refusal to respect Hindu traditions sparks outrage
The school’s leaders said that the Ashadhi Ekadashi custom was “stupid.”Santosh Dabhade went on to say that the school recently refused to give days off for the Hindu holidays of Ashadhi Ekadashi and Gudhi Padwa. “The students wanted to organize a Palkhi (procession) on the occasion of Ekadashi but the permission to it was also denied saying that it was a stupid tradition.
After Muslims Next Target Christians??
Alexander Reid, Principal, D Y Patil English High School, Ambi, was allegedly beaten up by Bajrang Dal goons for conducting Christian prayer 'Our Father who art in Heaven', every morning in the school
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— Mohammad Sher Ali (@SpeakMdAli) July 5, 2023
Allegations of misconduct by school principal escalate tensions
A member of the VHP says that the director was beaten after he tried to molest a woman parent. “From what I’ve heard, the people beat up the school director on July 4 after he was rude and tried to molest one of the female parents of a student.” The parents have so many complaints about the school and its management.
“That day one of the female parents approached the Principal directly asking why were the children at the school forced to read prayers from Bible and why the girls at the school were harassed. The Principal at that time attempted to disrespect her and molest her by touching her. The people around then happened to thrash him,” the VHP member added.
The Muslim teacher praised Islam and thought Jinnah, not Nehru, should be India’s prime minister. Sources also say that the teachers at that school force Hindu students to go against their religion and get them to believe in religions from other countries. One of the Muslim teachers named Samina Patel is also said to attempt to influence the students by saying that ‘Muslims have always been pure, it is Hindus who keep on defaming and attacking the minority community’.
Controversial remarks lead to termination of teachers at DY Patil
Patel also is believed to have made a derogatory comment against India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. “Nehru was not capable of being a PM. Mohammed Ali Jinnah should have become the PM of the country. The country of India would have developed to a massive extent,” Dabhade said, quoting her.
Three teachers at DY Patil High School, including Samina Patel, are said to have been fired by the school’s management. VHP members that Patel was one of the teachers who was fired. Also, it was asked the school’s management what they thought about what had happened, but they didn’t say anything specific. “No comments at present. The problem is being looked into by the managers. The official statement will be out soon,” said Shubert Dsouza, who works in the school’s office.
Management says it didn’t know about the CCTV cams and promises to take strict action.
The school’s leaders talked about the problem at a meeting on July 6 and said that they had no idea that CCTV cameras were set up in the bathrooms of girls in grades 8 and above. The management has promised that the teachers and the principal who were charged will be fired and that they will be punished in a harsh way.
The teachers at the school said that Hindu prayer was a waste of time.
When talked to the parents of one of the girls at the school, they confirmed that a detailed police complaint had been made at the Ambi Police Station, but that the FIR had not yet been registered. Deepti Karmale, a parent who is a woman, said that the girls at the school are being bullied and that CCTV cameras have been put in the girls’ bathrooms. She also said that the students are not allowed to learn about Hindu culture or customs and are forced to only pray in the Christian way.
“During an event, some of the students happened to play the famous Hindu prayer ‘Aee Giri Nandini’ but the teachers called it nonsense and said that no such ‘songs’ would be played at the school. The students are not given holidays on the Hindu festivals and are asked to pray to Jesus. We are not against it, but why such hatred towards the Hindu culture?” the parent asked.
Cultural bias and disrespect toward Indian traditions
She also told about a time at school when the students had a project to visit a holy place and write a note about it, but they were told not to go to a temple. “The school told the kids that they had to go to either a Gurudwara, a church, or a mosque. Why isn’t there a temple? We didn’t send our kids to school so they could learn this.This shows they don’t respect the Hindu culture,” the parent was quoted as saying.
She also said that she was worried because she didn’t know what the CCTV cameras in the girls’ bathroom might have caught. At the moment, the students’ angry parents have filed a police report and are waiting for a FIR to be made. The management has promised to look into the case and punish the Principal and teachers who are being blamed.
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