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Thursday 06 Aug 2015 - 12:34 Makkah mean time-21-10-1436
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Bangalore, India (IINA) - Sparking fresh religious tensions in India, a school principal in Bangalore, capital of the southern state of Karnataka, has punished and humiliated a Muslim student for not singing the Hindu prayers, leading him to depression, OnIslam reported.
"I was humiliated in front of 1,200 students and my constitutional right was violated. She made us go on stage and forced us to sing the prayer in front of everybody,” Hindustan Times reported quoted the student Naushad Kashimji (name changed) on Wednesday.
“She scolded me in front of everyone on the mike when I mispronounced a few Sanskrit words."
The incident occurred last week when the school Principal Padmaja Menon caught Muslim students who were not singing the Sanskrit shlokas prayers and punished them.
The incident has sparked an outrage among Bangalore’s Muslim community and rights activists who filed a complaint against the principal.
Meanwhile, R Khaleemullah of the Association for Protection of Civil Rights (APCR), said: "What disturbed us most is that the principal suggested that the boy was turning into a fundamentalist Muslim.
Commenting on the incident, Jessy Joseph, the former principal of the school, condemned the discriminatory act against Muslim students as a “very sad” development.
Commenting on the incident, Jessy Joseph, the former principal of the school, condemned the discriminatory act against Muslim students as a “very sad” development.
Muslims account for 180 million of India's 1.25 billion people, the world's third-largest Islamic population, next to Indonesia and Pakistan.
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