<p>A sedition case was booked against president of the city-based Shaheen Education Society, Abdul Khadeer, for allowing the students to stage a play against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), and a Urdu journalist Mohammad Yousuf Rahim for posting a clip of the play on Facebook.</p>.<p>Abdul Khadeer and Mohammad Rahim were booked under Sections 124(A) and 153(A) of the IPC for 'promoting enmity between different groups' by allowing the students to stage a play, portraying Prime Minister Narendra Modi in poor light in connection with the CAA and NRC.</p>.<p>Social activist Nilesh Rakshal had lodged a complaint in this regard with the New Town police on Jan 26.</p>.<p>The police are on the look out for Rahim, who is absconding. Rahim, it is said, had returned home from a foreign country only recently. The New Town police have seized the CDs of play from the house of a former staff of a news channel. </p>.<p>The police questioned the Class IV and V students of Shaheen School and the entire proceeding was videographed, sources said.</p>.<p>Superintendent of Police T Sridhar, however, said that the police had not questioned the children, but they only spoke to them during their visit to the school.</p>
<p>A sedition case was booked against president of the city-based Shaheen Education Society, Abdul Khadeer, for allowing the students to stage a play against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), and a Urdu journalist Mohammad Yousuf Rahim for posting a clip of the play on Facebook.</p>.<p>Abdul Khadeer and Mohammad Rahim were booked under Sections 124(A) and 153(A) of the IPC for 'promoting enmity between different groups' by allowing the students to stage a play, portraying Prime Minister Narendra Modi in poor light in connection with the CAA and NRC.</p>.<p>Social activist Nilesh Rakshal had lodged a complaint in this regard with the New Town police on Jan 26.</p>.<p>The police are on the look out for Rahim, who is absconding. Rahim, it is said, had returned home from a foreign country only recently. The New Town police have seized the CDs of play from the house of a former staff of a news channel. </p>.<p>The police questioned the Class IV and V students of Shaheen School and the entire proceeding was videographed, sources said.</p>.<p>Superintendent of Police T Sridhar, however, said that the police had not questioned the children, but they only spoke to them during their visit to the school.</p>