Hindu group poison school’s water
Several children at a state school in southern India’s Karnataka reportedly fell ill after consuming poisoned drinking water, police said. Authorities arrested three people in connection with the incident, including the local leader of the Hindu right-wing group Sriram Sene, from the state’s Belagavi district.
They had poisoned the school’s water tank at Hoolikatti village in an attempt to force the transfer of the Muslim headmaster, Belagavi police superintendent Bheemashankar S Guled said. The perpetrators of the plot allegedly blackmailed a local resident named Krishna Madar over his interfaith relationship and coerced him into poisoning the school’s water supply. Madar allegedly purchased three types of insecticide, mixed them in a juice packet, and persuaded a young student to pour the contents into the water tank.
11 children were taken ill, thankfully all have recovered.