Padmaavat protests: Many schools in Gurugram and Noida shut today

January 25, 2018 08:44

A day after a school bus was attacked in Haryana's Gurugram during protest against Sanjay Leela Bhansali's film Padmaavat, several schools in Gurugram and Noida have declared a holiday today as a precautionary measure.

"As of now it's peaceful here but it is indeed disturbing that in Gurugram some schools are shut as preemptive measures due to protests. This is a failure of administration," one parent told ANI.

Around 20-25 students of the G D Goenka World School in Gurugram had a narrow escape yesterday when a frenzied mob protesting the release Padmaavat attacked their bus.

The students were on their way home when a group of around 60 protesters, believed to be members of a fringe group, attacked the bus with bamboo sticks asking the driver to stop the vehicle.

When the driver did not comply, the miscreants pelted the vehicle with stones apparently to hurt the children.

The school bus staffer asked the kids to crawl under seats for safety and directed the driver to not stop it, Ravinder Kumar, public relations officer, Gurugram Police said.

Image: Protestors torched a bus at Gurugram's Sohna Road in Haryana on Wednesday. Photograph: ANI

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