Weeks After Attack On School Teacher, J&K Town Remains Tense thewire.in

The teacher was reportedly attacked by students after he praised the decision to read down Article 370.
Twenty days after students in a school in Jammu and Kashmir’s Batote allegedly attacked a teacher, the situation in the region remains tense, the Indian Express reported. The Class 10 teacher was reportedly beaten up after he listed the “benefits” of the Centre’s move to read down Article 370 of the constitution. The students may have thrown him off the first floor, killed him,” another teacher told the newspaper.

CISF jawans are now stationed at the school, and authorities have reportedly said that the teacher won’t be posted back to the school.

The school authorities have said they don’t know how the violence broke out. Students allege that the teacher made derogatory comments about a particular community, but he says he was only answering students’ questions. Fourteen students have been rusticated after the violence, and the teacher has been attached to the office of the chief education officer, Ramban.

Batote has a population of about 5,000, and an equal number of Hindus and Muslims. The violence and protests at the school have reportedly divided the town along religious lines. “Some people want to disturb the communal amity by trying to blow the tiff out of proportion