TEAM HERALD
teamherald@herald-goa.com
MARGAO: District Collector N D Agrawal on Saturday submitted to the South Goa Sessions Court that he had called a meeting of the stakeholders in his office to resolve the Chowgule Higher Secondary School row to maintain peace and tranquillity in the college premises, even as the teaching staff today filed an intervention application in the court to make them parties to the application filed by the Chowgule Education Society.
The matter will now come up for hearing before the court on July 20.
In his reply to the application filed by the Chowgule Education Society, the Collector claimed that the Chowgule management was not ready to cooperate on the day of the incident when the higher secondary school witnessed an uproar over the locking of the staff room by the management.
Agrawal further asserted in his reply that he has not interfered in any manner in the day-to-day administration of the school and that he had issued the order only to ensure peace and tranquillity in the campus. “Under the provisions of the CrPC, the District Magistrate is responsible to maintain peace and tranquillity. If the management order was not kept on hold, there was every possibility that the crowd of 500 people would have turned violent”, Agrawal stated in his reply.
Meanwhile, the teaching staff of Chowgule HSS on Saturday filed an intervention application asking the Sessions Court to make them the party in the matter.
