MP: School principal booked for sedition after diary shows erroneous J&K map

Shahdol: A case of sedition has been registered against the management of a private school in Budhar town in the district for allegedly marking Jammu and Kashmir incorrectly on India's map in the school diary.

Acting on the complaint of Shrikrishna Gupta, the case was registered against Green Wales School, its director Mohammad Sharif Niyazi, principal Govind Chand Das, and publisher of the diary Arun Kumar Agrawal. The complaint was registered by the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) activist.

“I approached the police on Sunday when I noticed the wrong map (printed in the diary),” BJYM’s Budhar mandal chief Shriksrina Gupta reportedly said.

Budhar police station in-charge Satish Dwivedi said the three men were arrested and a local court sent them in judicial custody for 14 days today.

The case was registered under IPC sections 124A (sedition), he added.

There are over 1,000 students enrolled in the higher secondary school 22 km from district headquarters Shahdol, near the Chhattisgarh-MP border.