Action on student for non-veg food: AEEDU writes to UP CM, calls for probe

A civil society group headed by former chief election commissioner S Y Quraishi has written to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath over the suspension of a nursery student of an Amroha-based private school for allegedly bringing non-vegetarian food for tiffin, urging the CM to get the matter probed and take corrective action. In its letter to Adityanath on Saturday, the Alliance for Economic and Educational Development of the Underprivileged (AEEDU) said that at a time when the entire nation, regardless of religion and language, wants the underprivileged to secure education, a shocking news has come purportedly from Uttar Pradesh's Amroha, wherein a school principal has apparently given detention to a Class 5 student on the grounds of carrying non-vegetarian food. "The news claims that the principal has already expelled the child, and the video that is circulating has disturbed us all as it shows the principal making inappropriate comments, unbecoming of a man holding the ..