Bidar: Police have charged the authorities of a school in Bidar with sedition after its students performed a play that was reportedly against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and National Register of Citizens (NRC) on Sunday, January 26.

The management of Shaheen Education Institute was booked under sections 124A (sedition), 504 (provoke breach of peace), 505(2) (statements promoting enmity), 153A (promoting communal hatred) and 34 (act done by several persons in furtherance of common intention) of the IPC. The head of the school, as well as management staff, were named in the FIR as the accused.

In his complaint, social worker Nilesh Rakshyal alleged that the skit put up by the students portrayed Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a bad light and depicted that a certain community would have to leave India if the NRC was implemented.

Rakshyal further believes that the incident could disturb communal peace besides sending out the wrong message on the government legislation.

After receiving the complaint, Bidar police sealed the offices of Shaheen Education Institute on Tuesday, January 28. Meanwhile, members from the RSS-affiliated student organisation Akhila Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad staged a protest against the allegedly derogatory play and also shot off a memorandum to Karnataka Home Minister Basavaraj Bommai in this regard.