<p class="title">A day after a magisterial probe was ordered to investigate an alleged ban on singing Vande Matram and chanting "Bharat Mata Ki Jai" at a government-aided inter college in Ballia district, authorities have closed it indefinitely.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"We have closed the college till further orders. It will be reopened after permission from administration" Principal of Gandhi Mohammad Ali Memorial (GMAM) Inter College, Majid Nasir, said Wednesday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">On the direction of the district administration, the principal pasted a notice dated Tuesday at the college that there was freedom to recite or sing "Bharat Mata Ki Jai", Vande Matram, Jana Gana Mana etc.</p>.<p class="bodytext">District Magistrate Bhawani Singh Khangaraut and Superintendent of Police Sriparna Ganguly visited the college Tuesday to examine the allegation that there a ban on singing Vande Matram and chanting "Bharat Mata Ki Jai" at the college. They later ordered a magisterial probe.</p>.<p class="bodytext">An FIR was registered on Monday by Class 12 student Anuj Kumar Gaur that he and three other school students were attacked at the college gate.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Gaur alleged that they were attacked at the behest of Nasir and a few teachers.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He claimed Nasir and the teachers were angry with him after he told a social organisation and mediapersons on Friday that singing Vande Matram and chanting Bharat Mata Ki Jai were not allowed in the college.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Gaur stated in the FIR that around 20 to 25 men attacked them with lathis, while raising "Pakistan Zindabad" slogans.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The principal and the teachers instigated the assailants to continue to beat them, Gaur has alleged. </p>
<p class="title">A day after a magisterial probe was ordered to investigate an alleged ban on singing Vande Matram and chanting "Bharat Mata Ki Jai" at a government-aided inter college in Ballia district, authorities have closed it indefinitely.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"We have closed the college till further orders. It will be reopened after permission from administration" Principal of Gandhi Mohammad Ali Memorial (GMAM) Inter College, Majid Nasir, said Wednesday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">On the direction of the district administration, the principal pasted a notice dated Tuesday at the college that there was freedom to recite or sing "Bharat Mata Ki Jai", Vande Matram, Jana Gana Mana etc.</p>.<p class="bodytext">District Magistrate Bhawani Singh Khangaraut and Superintendent of Police Sriparna Ganguly visited the college Tuesday to examine the allegation that there a ban on singing Vande Matram and chanting "Bharat Mata Ki Jai" at the college. They later ordered a magisterial probe.</p>.<p class="bodytext">An FIR was registered on Monday by Class 12 student Anuj Kumar Gaur that he and three other school students were attacked at the college gate.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Gaur alleged that they were attacked at the behest of Nasir and a few teachers.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He claimed Nasir and the teachers were angry with him after he told a social organisation and mediapersons on Friday that singing Vande Matram and chanting Bharat Mata Ki Jai were not allowed in the college.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Gaur stated in the FIR that around 20 to 25 men attacked them with lathis, while raising "Pakistan Zindabad" slogans.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The principal and the teachers instigated the assailants to continue to beat them, Gaur has alleged. </p>