Bidar School

The High Court of Karnataka on Wednesday quashed the sedition FIR filed against the management of a school in Bidar for staging a play against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the National Register of Citizenship (NRC).

All the accused in a case of sedition filed over a school play in Karnataka's Bidar have been granted anticipatory bail by a court that said the case lacked enough basis. The play, themed on protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA), "has not caused any disharmony in the society", said the district and sessions court in Bidar.

Often, we do not fully realize the enormous cost that common citizens pay in these days of hate-filled politics. Such politics also generates an utter irrationality within the system, when the desire to please the rulers spreads like a plague among all levels of the bureaucracy, leading to the most bizarre actions which even the best satirists coul...

Bail For Karnataka Teacher, Student's Mother, Arrested In Sedition Case Over School Play

More and more voices are being raised against police action in Bidar in north Karnataka - where sedition charges were filed against a school management - and the mother of a student and the head teacher were arrested for a school play critical of the contentious citizenship law.

Children at a school in Karnataka's Bidar have been getting used to a highly unusual routine. A police officer arrives in the afternoon. This is followed by four or five hours of questioning. Their crime was to participate in a school play critical of the citizenship law, staged on January 21. The children's interrogation continues even after the s...

Two women, the mother of a student and the head teacher, have been arrested in a sedition case filed in Karnataka against a private school over a play on the controversial Citizenship (Amendment) Act earlier this month.

A police case was registered against a school in Karnataka's Bidar district after a video of its students enacting a drama was widely circulated on social media.

The High Court of Karnataka on Wednesday quashed the sedition FIR filed against the management of a school in Bidar for staging a play against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the National Register of Citizenship (NRC).

All the accused in a case of sedition filed over a school play in Karnataka's Bidar have been granted anticipatory bail by a court that said the case lacked enough basis. The play, themed on protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA), "has not caused any disharmony in the society", said the district and sessions court in Bidar.

Often, we do not fully realize the enormous cost that common citizens pay in these days of hate-filled politics. Such politics also generates an utter irrationality within the system, when the desire to please the rulers spreads like a plague among all levels of the bureaucracy, leading to the most bizarre actions which even the best satirists coul...

Bail For Karnataka Teacher, Student's Mother, Arrested In Sedition Case Over School Play

More and more voices are being raised against police action in Bidar in north Karnataka - where sedition charges were filed against a school management - and the mother of a student and the head teacher were arrested for a school play critical of the contentious citizenship law.

Children at a school in Karnataka's Bidar have been getting used to a highly unusual routine. A police officer arrives in the afternoon. This is followed by four or five hours of questioning. Their crime was to participate in a school play critical of the citizenship law, staged on January 21. The children's interrogation continues even after the s...

Two women, the mother of a student and the head teacher, have been arrested in a sedition case filed in Karnataka against a private school over a play on the controversial Citizenship (Amendment) Act earlier this month.

A police case was registered against a school in Karnataka's Bidar district after a video of its students enacting a drama was widely circulated on social media.