Pune: Citing harassment from a local corporator and her husband over junior school admissions, nuns working with Mount Carmel School, along with students and parents, staged a dharna outside the school to protest against the incident.
The dharna was organised by the Catholic Association of Pune against corporator Aarti Babar and her husband Sainath Babar. According to school principal Sr Marisa A.C., the harassment started two months ago Aarti Babar approached the school with a list of students seeking admissions in junior school, reported The Indian Express.
“She demanded that all students should get admissions and I assured that we would try, but we do not sell seats. She left and within minutes, her husband barged in with his men and created a ruckus. He left after issuing threats, and last week, he repeated the same act by entering the school forcibly. He came to the principal’s office and broke pots to intimidate us,” said the principal.
“This is a girls’ school and we are extremely worried about the safety of girl students and staffers in the event of such violence. Hence, we also informed about the incident to the local police station,” the principal added. She went to meet Pune police commissioner on Monday evening.