By TNM Staff
A member of the Sri Rama Sene allegedly orchestrated the poisoning of the water in a government school in Belagavi district in order to get the principal, who is a Muslim, transferred.
On July 14, several children aged between seven and 10 years fell sick after drinking water at the Government Lower Primary School in Janata Colony in Hoolikatte village. The headmaster of the school, Suleman Gorinaik, lodged a complaint with the Soundatti Police Station, who registered a case under Sections 110 (culpable homicide) and 125(a) (endangering life) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS).
Soundatti police told TNM that on investigating, it was learned that a boy studying in the school had poured a commonly used insecticide into the water tank in the school.
Inquiries then led the police to a man named Krishna Madara who allegedly got the child to pour the insecticide by giving him chocolates and money. However, police said that the crime was allegedly orchestrated by Sagara Patil, the Saundatti taluk president of the Sri Rama Sene.
Belagavi Superintendent of Police Bhimshankar Guled told the media that Sagara Patil did this to target the headmaster, who had been teaching at the school for 13 years.
“Sagara, who is associated with the Sri Rama Sene, wanted Suleman Gorinaik, the school headmaster, to be transferred. The investigation has found that through this incident, he wanted the headmaster to get a bad name,” Bhimshanker told the media on Saturday, August 2.
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