'No communal angle in attack on nuns'

LUCKNOW, APRIL 13. The Uttar Pradesh Government today said two of the three cases of attacks on Christians in Mathura had been worked out and asserted there was no communal angle to these incidents. The Mathura police had arrested two persons in connection with the attack on St. Dominic school on April 10 and solved the case which was ``basically a row over admission to the school'', the Principal Home Secretary, Mr. V. K. Mittal, told reporters here.

A group of people had roughed up the school principal and an FIR had been lodged in this connection. In the other incident in Sacred Heart School on April 6, the district administration organised a meeting of teachers and parents to resolve the matter, Mr. Mittal said.

The trouble arose when parents had clashed with the principal over fee hike, he said. The attack on St. Teresa School on April 11 was a case of looting, Mr. Mittal said, adding interrogation of some people was on in this connection. No one had been arrested so far, he said.

A report from Mathura said armed people yesterday assaulted two nuns and a priest of St. Teresa school and ransacked their houses in Kosi Kalan area. They decamped with cash and ornaments. Instructions had been issued to all district magistrates of the State to provide security to all institutions run by Christian missionaries, he said.

- PTI

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