Tirupur: Police had to intervene after a group of people claiming to be Bajrang Dal members quarrelled with the teachers of a CBSE school near Kangeyam, who had brought students to a local church on a field visit on Friday.
More than 20 students from various classes of the school at Bagavathipalayam on Trichy Road had arrived at the church located on Muthur Pirivu on Friday morning. Five people, claiming to be members of Bajrang Dal, reached the spot and created a ruckus, charging that the teachers were trying to covert the students to Christianity.
“The teachers had conducted field visits to worship places as part of the CBSE curriculum. The students were earlier taken to two Hindu temples and a mosque. We had also informed their parents about the programme,” an official from the school said.
“The students were told about the practices followed in the worship places, but were not asked to offer prayers, as charged by the Hindu outfit,” he told TOI.
As the cadres started to threaten the group, school authorities informed Kangeyam police. Police personnel reached the spot and dispersed the troublemakers.
In January 2017, members of some Hindu outfits had threatened study groups from CBSE schools, who had reached the church on similar field visit. Kangeyam tahsildar had to organise a meeting to solve the issue.
