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School principal forced to seek justice

By K.V.Subramanya

BANGALORE JUNE 9. A school principal has been forced to seek justice after he was thrown out from the school he founded in 1987.

About a dozen complaints he filed in the last two years with police, the Home Secretary and Senior Citizen's Helpline have not yielded any result.

K.N.Lakshminarasimha, a recipient of the "Best Teacher" awards from the Union and State governments and "Visishtacharya'' Award from the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Mumbai, founded the PTA School in Jayanagar in 1987.

Though he was the Principal and Executive Trustee of the institution, Mr. Lakshminarasimha was unceremoniously sacked from the post of principal by a few trustees said to be the supporters of a Minister in the S.M.Krishna Cabinet, on August 18, 2002.

The trustees, it is alleged, had set their eyes on the school funds running into several crores of rupees and thus removed the institution's founder from the post of school principal.

According to the complaints lodged by Mr. Lakshminarasimha with Siddapura Police, the Assistant Commissioner of Police (Madivala), the Commissioner of Police, the Home Secretary and the Senior Citizen's Helpline, the dissident trustees along with some teachers broke open the locks of his chamber, ransacked it and removed vital documents, books and other belongings on September 2, 2002.

Mr. Lakshminarasimha was removed from the post of principal on the grounds that he was aged 62, though there is an order by the III Additional City Civil Judge, K.Naraharai, passed on September 29, 1993, allowing him to continue as the principal as long as he desires. And, according to the trust deed, Mr. Lakshminarasimha is a life trustee of the institution.

However, Mr. Lakshminarasimha, according to the complaints, is being physically prevented and threatened by the dissident trustees from entering the school and discharging his duties as the principal and executive trustee despite the court order. After his removal from the post, he met the then Commissioner of Police, H.T.Sangliana, the Joint Commissioner of Police, Jeevan Kumar Gaonkar, the Deputy Commissioner of Police (South), T.Suneel Kumar, the Assistant Commissioner of Police (Madivala), Suresh Naidu, and even the Home Secretary, Adeep Chowdry, and apprised them of the "injustice'' meted out to him.

He requested them to get him reinstated as the principal in accordance with the court order. But his complaints and appeals have not got him justice.

Neither the police got him reinstated nor they initiated any action against those named in the complaints.

However, after he met the Director-General and Inspector-General of Police, T.Madiyal, things have moved.

The Siddapura Police registered a FIR on May 5, 2003 against eight persons who allegedly ransacked his chamber and removed his personal belongings and important documents from there.

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