After protests, all 4 Ryan schools in Gurugram shut for 2 days
September 11, 2017 08:41
All four campuses of Ryan International School in Gurugram will remain closed on Monday and Tuesday under the orders of the government amid raging protests against the management over the murder of Class 2 student Pradhyumn Thakur in the Bhondsi campus last Friday.
The decision was taken with safety in mind, after "requests from parents", said Gurgaon's deputy commissioner Vinay Pratap Singh, but the uncertainty around the future of the school, especially the Bhondsi campus, drove up anxiety as well.
Ryan has two other campuses in Sector 41 and another in Sector 31. Collectively, around 4,500 students study on the four campuses. The Bhondsi campus has a little over 1,000 students, many of whose parents don't want to send their children back to the campus anymore.
On Sunday, hundreds of angry parents on Sunday staged a protest outside the Ryan International School in Gurugram for a Central Bureau of Investigation probe.
A liquor shop, situated just 50 metres from the school, was set ablaze and some of the demonstrators threw liquor bottles inside school premises to vent their ire against the school management, police said.
The protesters alleged that school drivers and conductors often consumed alcohol from the liquor shop in their free time.
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