UP: Mathura headmaster suspended after BJP member accuses him of making students offer namaz
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A Muslim headmaster at a government school in Uttar Pradesh’s Mathura was suspended after a Bharatiya Janata Party leader filed a complaint accusing him of making students offer namaz and of not having them recite the national anthem, The Indian Express reported on Wednesday.
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The headmaster, 52-year-old Jaan Mohammed, had been posted at the primary school in Naujheel since 2007.
Mohammed denied the allegations against him and said that no one had made such claims about him before, the newspaper reported.
He said that he was informed about his suspension on January 31, even though no verification or inquiry was carried out.
The complaint against Mohammed was filed by a man named Durgesh, the head of the BJP unit in the Bajna town and a former village chief.
The BJP member claimed that villagers informed him about the activities of the headmaster, after which he wrote to the block education officer, The New Indian Express reported.
The complainant claimed that in the presence of the headmaster, preachers from the Islamic organisation Tablighi Jamaat were called, who pressured children at the school to adopt Islam.
“I have no personal dispute with the headmaster, nor have I ever met him,” The Indian Express quoted Durgesh as saying. “I filed the complaint with the BSA [Basic Shiksha Adhikari] solely on the basis...