FIR registered against Abhijeet Dipke for 'entering government school without permission, threatening teachers'

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The CJP leader also filmed the proceedings and shared it on social media, the complaint said. File | Photo Credit: Special arrangement

Police in the district have registered a case against Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) convenor Abhijeet Dipke and others for allegedly entering a government school without permission, disrupting official work and threatening teachers.

The First Information Report (FIR) was registered at Ausa police station on a complaint filed by Sayyed Shamshadbano Khairatali (53), a teacher at a Zilla Parishad Urdu school.

Mr. Dipke has been visiting schools in central Maharashtra's Latur district and highlighting their problems as part of the CJP's ongoing 'School Thik Karo' (improve government schools) campaign.

According to the complaint, the alleged incident took place at the ZP Urdu school at Jawali near Ausa, over 500 km from Mumbai.

Mr. Dipke and his associates entered the school without permission, sat among students and asked them various questions, thereby causing obstruction to educational and government work, the complaint alleged.

The CJP leader also filmed the proceedings and shared it on social media, the complaint said.

Further, Mr. Dipke defamed the school by claiming that students from another school had been brought and made to sit in the classrooms during his visit, and threatened to get the teachers suspended, it alleged.

The FIR was registered under sections 132 (Assault or use of criminal force to deter a public servant from discharging their official duty), 329(3) (house trespass), 351(2) (criminal intimidation) and 356(2) (criminal defamation) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.

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