PTI
 
Moradabad, Feb 6: Shiv Sainiks on Monday ransacked a school in Moradabad and thrashed its woman principal and the manager after a teacher made allegations of sexual harassment against the latter.

A police team rushed to the Cosmopolitan Secondary School at Harthalla and had taken into custody the school principal, manager Ganpat Singh and several activists of the Shiv Sena local unit, Civil Lines police station investigating officer Narendra Tevetia said.

Armed with rods and lathis, over 20 Sena activists barged into the school premises surrounded the two and thrashed them, he said adding that the principal had fallen unconscious for some time.

They smashed windowpanes and damaged other property of the school.

Tevetia said a teacher, hailing from Baghpat, had lodged an FIR against Singh alleging that he had been making sexual advances towards her for the past three months while three other women teachers threatened to resign as the manager was allegedly "characterless". The teachers alleged the principal was in league with Singh in the sexual exploitation.

He said Singh and the school principal, whose name has not been disclosed, were being questioned.

The activists lodged in the police station, however, claimed they were not members of the Shiv Sena.