A group miscreants has burned down the second oldest Catholic school in Manipur over disciplinary action taken against some students. St Joseph Higher Secondary School at Sugnu in Chandel district of the north-eastern Indian state lost all its files and records of the past 55 years after the miscreants set it on fire around 9 pm on April 25. Father Jacob Chapao, the director of the Manipur Catholic Youth Organisation, has issued a condemnation letter, slamming the miscreants for the barbaric act. “Such barbaric act of vandalism on an educational institution is against the cause of humanity,” the priest said. The school, which has some 1400 students in the current academic year, took disciplinary action on six students but were allowed to attend the class as usual.
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