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New Delhi, April 28
The Chhattisgarh Police booked eight people, including seven teachers for allegedly forcing some students of Guru Ghasidas Central University to offer namaz during an NSS camp in Bilaspur district.
The allegations are that they forced 159 students to offer namaz during the camp held between March 26 to April 1 in Shivtarai village though only four among them were Muslims, officials said.
The students came back and protested, following which right wing outfits too agitated seeking action against those responsible.
The Bilaspur police stated that the incident took place on March 31. Bilaspur Senior Superintendent of Police Rajnesh Singh had constituted a four member committee under City Superintendent of Police (Kotwali) Akshay Sabadra to investigate the matter.
The police have booked persons idenitfied as Dilip Jha, Madhulika Singh, Jyoti Verma, Neeraj Kumari, Prashant Vaishnav, Suryabhan Singh and Basant Kumar, who are teachers at Guru Ghasidas Central University, and team core leader-cum-student Ayushman Chaudhary under Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita sections 196 (b), 197 (1) (b) (c), 299, 302, 190 of BNS and section 4 of Chhattisgarh Religious Freedom Act.
