Overview

• During Friday’s arts festival at Kumbala Government Higher Secondary School, two teachers stopped a pro-Palestine mime and pulled down the stage curtains, according to police.
• On Saturday, MSF and SFI held protests at the campus, and MSF activists entered a PTA meeting demanding action against the teachers.
• Protesters alleged that teachers locked students in a room to halt the show, a claim reported by PTI that has not been independently verified.
• Police removed protesters from the premises and deployed personnel on campus to avert any untoward incident.
• General Education Minister V Sivankutty directed an immediate inquiry and said efforts would be made to let students stage the same mime in the future, while the PTA works to resume the arts festival.