Cops continue to question students in sedition case; arrested

Policequestioned some children and staff of a school here yet again onTuesday in connection with the sedition case registered against themanagement and staff following staging of a drama allegedly portraying Prime Minister Narendra Modi in poor light over the CAA and NRC.

"This was the fifth time police have come here. As usual theycame and questioned the children and staff," said a source atthe Shaheen School.

School Headmistress, Fareeda Begum and Nazbunnisa, the mother of a nine-year-old girl, who took part in the play, have already been arrested in connection with the case.

While both have been remanded to judicial custody, the child, according to sources, is traumatised.

"The landlord of the house where Nazbunnisa stayed as atenant is taking care of the child. She is traumatised," a school official said.

According to sources, the police came in for criticism from some quarters for questioning thechildren in uniform on January 28, two days after theyregistered a sedition case against the school and a person who had posted thevideo on his Facebook page.

A school official said "In the morning, three policepersonnel in plainclothes came with two members of the Karnataka State ChildRights Protection Commission. Later, the deputy superintendentof police H Basaveshwara joined them.

When contacted, Basaveshwara refused to comment, sayinghe was still investigating the case.

The police have been reportedly questioning the children and staffabout those who wrote the script and assigned to deliverspecific dialogues.

Meanwhile in Bengaluru, Congress MLA and former ministerU T Khader slammed the BJP government in the state as well asthe Centre for "filing sedition charges against people."