July 28, 2026 03:30 pm (IST)
Follow us:
facebook-white sharing button
twitter-white sharing button
instagram-white sharing button
youtube-white sharing button
Assam floods: Death toll stays at 68 as over 5.24 lakh continue to battle deluge | 'Probe is meaningless if responsibility isn't fixed': Supreme Court slams Delhi Police over CJP protest crackdown | 'No protester will be left alone': CJP claims Centre shared FIR withdrawal copies after midnight talks | Bihar cop suspended after viral AK-47 firing video during NEET protest crackdown | After Dharmendra Pradhan's exit, 'E20 Janta Party' emerges, demands Nitin Gadkari's resignation over fuel policy | 'Can't lathicharge people just because they are protesting': Supreme Court slams Delhi Police over NEET protest crackdown | 'Victory of democracy': Sonam Wangchuk congratulates Gen Z as Dharmendra Pradhan resigns after month-long NEET protests | 'Democracy has triumphed': CJP celebrates as Dharmendra Pradhan quits, warns Centre 'Don't mess with cockroaches' | Centre buckles under CJP-led NEET protests; Dharmendra Pradhan quits as Education Minister | Delhi Police flags 2,500 suspected criminals at Jantar Mantar amid NEET protest

Attack on school was planned: TMC

| | Feb 14, 2015, at 05:29 am
New Delhi, Feb 13 (IBNS): The Trinamool Congress on Friday said the alleged vandalization of a convent school in south Delhi by miscreants in the intervening night of Thursday-Friday was 'planned'.

Trinamool spokesperson Derek O'Brien tweeted: "Spoke to authorities in Delhi. Security CCTV system first destroyed before school was vandalized. Suggests attack well planned."

He said: "Does not matter if the Delhi school is run by Christians,Hindus,Muslims or atheists... children have been violated."

The school in Vasant Vihar - Holy Child Auxilium- is where also Human Resource Minister Smriti Irani studied.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the same day summoned Police Commissioner of Delhi B.S. Bassi and expressed his deep concern and anguish over the rising crime rate in the national capital in the wake of the vandalism in a convent school in south Delhi

The Prime Minister asked the Police Commissioner to speedily investigate the recent incidents of vandalism and ensure that the guilty are brought to book.

Modi also spoke over telephone to the Union Home Secretary L.C. Goyal.

He has asked the Home Secretary to pay special attention to the rising incidents of crime, and vandalism, and to work towards ensuring the safety and security of women in the capital.

Earlier, there were reports of a series of attacks on churches.

Earlier, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh had instructed Delhi Police to beef up security of churches and other places of worship in the wake of the recent attacks on churches across the national capital.

Support Our Journalism

We cannot do without you.. your contribution supports unbiased journalism

IBNS is not driven by any ism- not wokeism, not racism, not skewed secularism, not hyper right-wing or left liberal ideals, nor by any hardline religious beliefs or hyper nationalism. We want to serve you good old objective news, as they are. We do not judge or preach. We let people decide for themselves. We only try to present factual and well-sourced news.

Support objective journalism for a small contribution.