Publisher, School Principal Held for Using Books with Prophet Mohammed's Image

The principal of St Mark’s Boys Town Primary School in Jahanuma of Kalapather in the Old City, Shiva Reddy, publisher A. Ravi Reddy of Amigos Academic Creative and books supplier K. Srinivas Reddy were arrested for issuing textbooks carrying purported ‘images’ of Prophet Mohammed.

The arrests came after about 800 Muslims, early on Monday, staged a protest on the school premises against the school management for issuing social studies textbooks carrying the image to students of Class 4.

As the protesters tried to barge into the school, senior police officials, including city additional commissioner Vikram Singh Mann and south zone additional commissioner Shaik Jahangir, stepped in and pacified them by promising to take action against the school and the publisher.

On a complaint from Moulana Saif Pasha Baqari, president of Bazm-e-Tariq, the police registered a case and lodged an FIR under for promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion and insulting someone intentionally to provoke them, with the knowledge leading to provocation against the trio.

The principal of



St Mark’s Boys Town Primary School in Jahanuma of Kalapather in the Old City, Shiva Reddy, publisher A. Ravi Reddy of Amigos Academic Creative and books supplier K. Srinivas Reddy were arrested for issuing textbooks carrying purported ‘images’ of Prophet Mohammed.

The arrests came after about 800 Muslims, early on Monday, staged a protest on the school premises against the school management for issuing social studies textbooks carrying the image to students of Class 4.

As the protesters tried to barge into the school, senior police officials, including city additional commissioner Vikram Singh Mann and south zone additional commissioner Shaik Jahangir, stepped in and pacified them by promising to take action against the school and the publisher.

On a complaint from Moulana Saif Pasha Baqri, president of Bazm-e-Tariq, the police registered a case and lodged an FIR under for promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion and insulting someone intentionally to provoke them, with the knowledge leading to provocation against the trio.