Kochi: A case has been registered against a school in the city for allegedly teaching objectionable content to students, with police suspecting that the curriculum has been drafted by persons close to controversial preacher Zakir Naik.
The Peace International School at Thammanam in Ernakulam is run by the Peace Educational Foundation, which is headed by some "influential local businessmen".
Police have registered a case under sections 153A and 34 of the IPC against the school principal, administrator and three trustees, police sources told PTI.
The case was registered on the basis of a report filed by the Ernakulam district education officer, stating that "what was being taught was not secular".
"The case was registered for teaching students objectionable content in the syllabus... what was not secular. Religious curriculum was being followed," the sources said.
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The school has classes from the LKG to eighth standard.
"We suspect that this school's curriculum has been drafted by persons close to controversial preacher Zakir Naik, of Mumbai-based Islamic International School," the sources said.
Naik, an Islamic televangelist, was in the eye of of a storm recently for allegedly preaching radical views.
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Earlier, the name of the school had cropped up during the investigation into the missing Keralite youths, who are suspected to have joined the deadly terror group Islamic State.
Abdul Rashid, one among the 21 missing youths from Kerala, had worked as public relations officer at the school. His wife Mariam, who was known as Merin before converting to Islam, had worked as a teacher in the school.
Recently, six persons were arrested in Kerala for suspected links with the ISIS.
(with agency inputs)