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Kejriwal condemns Delhi Christian school attack
New Delhi:Delhi Chief Minister-designate Arvind Kejriwal Friday condemned the attack on a Christian school here.
"I strongly condemn the attack on Holy Child Auxilium school. These kind of acts will not be tolerated," Kejriwal said in a tweet.
Some unidentified people barged into the premises of Holy Child Auxilium school in south Delhi's Vasant Vihar. They ransacked the office of the school principal and damaged some CCTV cameras installed in the school premises.
An unidentified group Friday ransacked a Christian school here, police said.
Staff
members of the Holy Child Auxilium school in south Delhi's Vasant Vihar
told police that a few CCTV cameras installed in the school premises
were damaged and the office of the principal was ransacked.
"Some
CCTV cameras were damaged and the office of the school principal was
ransacked by some unidentified people early Friday," Delhi Catholic
Archdiocese spokesperson Father Savarimuthu Sankar told IANS.
Sankar said school children have been sent back to their homes after the incident came to light.
Leaders
of the Christian community said some members of a group have been
intentionally targeting the community and this is the sixth such attack
within 11 weeks.
Sankar claimed that the attack sent a clear message that a group is trying to "fill fear" among the Christian community.
He said that five churches have been attacked since December 2014 and this is the sixth such attack.
"We
see a clear pattern in all the attacks. Earlier we thought that these
attacks have a connection with the Delhi polls," said Sankar.
"Now
it has been clear that this is a handiwork of some fundamentalist group
whose motive is to fill fear among the Christian community," Sankar
said.
Father Mahew Koyickal told IANS: "The intention of the
attackers is to unnerve the Christian community. Since December, five
churches have been targeted on regular interval. We demanded that the
case should be investigated from all angles," he said.
Few items and a DVD player have also been stolen from St. Alphonsa's church in south Delhi's Vasant Kunj Feb 2.
Three people have been arrested Jan 15, a day after a church in west Delhi was vandalised.
Earlier in January, a minor fire was reported from a church in Rohini, west Delhi. The Christmas crib outside was charred.
Some
unidentified people threw stones at Our Lady of Fatima Forane Church at
Jasola in south Delhi in December and broke window panes.
St.
Sebastian's Church, a Catholic church at Dilshad Garden in east Delhi,
was torched in December. Police confirmed it was a case of arson.
According
to the 2011 Census report, the number of Christians was around 130,000
in Delhi, home to about 17 million. The Christian population in India is
24 million among the total of 1.2 billion.