A government school teacher in Shivamogga district, Karnataka, has been transferred, and will face an official inquiry following allegations that she told two Class 5 Muslim students to “go to Pakistan.”
The incident has sparked outrage and drawn attention to communal tensions within the region, particularly as it follows another recent case in Uttar Pradesh, where a private school teacher faced charges for making communal comments and encouraging students to harm their Muslim classmate.
According to the complaint, filed with the education department by A Nazrullah, the president of the district unit of the Janata Dal Secular’s minority wing, Manjula Devi, the teacher in question, allegedly scolded the boys and made the inflammatory remarks, saying, “this is not your country.”
“This is not your country; this is the country of Hindus. You should go to Pakistan. You are our slaves forever,”, the teacher is reported to have said according to the investigator of the case.
