Police in Latur district of Maharashtra, India have registered a case against Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) convener Abhijeet Dipke and others for allegedly entering a government school without permission, disrupting official work and threatening teachers.
The FIR was registered at Ausa police station following a complaint by Sayyed Shamshadbano Khairatali, 53, a teacher at a Zilla Parishad Urdu school.
Dipke has been visiting government schools across the district and highlighting their problems as part of the CJP’s ongoing “School Thik Karo” (Improve Government Schools) campaign.
According to the complaint, the incident took place at the ZP Urdu school in Jawali near Ausa, more than 500km from Mumbai.
Dipke and his associates allegedly entered the school without permission, sat among the students and questioned them, disrupting educational and official activities, reports The Hindu.
The complaint also alleged that Dipke filmed the proceedings and shared the footage on social media.
It further alleged that he defamed the school by claiming that students from another school had been brought in and made to sit in classrooms during his visit, and threatened to get the teachers suspended.
The case was registered under Sections 132 (assault or use of criminal force to deter a public servant from performing official duties), 329(3) (house trespass), 351(2) (criminal intimidation) and 356(2) (criminal defamation) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.
Further investigation is underway, officials said.
