Police de-seal Rajdhani School ahead of exams

NEW DELHI: On Wednesday the Delhi police de-sealed the Rajdhani School at Shiv Vihar, four days after it sealed the school. The School will restart annual examination from Thursday. However, the residents gathered outside the school demanding that it be re-sealed because it was allegedly used as a location to mount attacks during Delhi Violence on February 24. The police tried to control the situation.

Earlier, the Delhi police had sealed the school that was torched in the communal violence in north-east Delhi and arrested its owner in connection with the riots that raged through the area in February, killing more than 50 people.

Rioters had barged into the building of Rajdhani Public Senior Secondary School, Shiv Vihar on February 24, vandalising school property and burning furniture. Delhi police's crime branch sealed the school on Friday evening. "We have de-sealed the school as there are exams from Thursday," said a senior police officer.

The school on Monday moved a Delhi court, challenging the sealing and detention of its owner. The sealing of the school became an area of concern for the parents of the children studying in the school as exams dates neared. However, some locals from Shiv Vihar staged a protest outside the school demanding that the school be re-sealed again. They said that if their homes and shops could be sealed because they were damaged or used during riots, why cant the school remain sealed.