Bengaluru: School headmistress, parent jailed for insulting PM Modi in play

Bengaluru: Days after a sedition case was slapped against a school in Karnataka, the Bidar New Town Police on Friday arrested its headmistress and a student's mother for alleged involvement in staging of a drama portraying PM Narendra Modi in poor light over the the CAA and the NRC.

The arrested duo was produced before a court, which remanded them to judicial custody, said a police officer.

The police action came after the two women, a few staff members of the Shaheen School in the district headquarters town of Bidar, and students were questioned for more than 2.5 hours on Thursday.

Head-mistress Farida Begum and Nazbunissa, 26, the mother of the girl who had uttered the lines in the play, were arrested.

Speaking to a private news channel, Nazbunissa said she had taught her daughter the lines after watching a few YouTube videos.

"We had no intention to insult the prime minister. I should have stopped my daughter, but I didn't. So this whole episode is my fault and no one else is responsible. It was a mistake, which won't happen again," she said.