Map in MP school diary shows parts of J&K out of India; owner, principal charged with sedition

News Delhi: Three persons arrested by the police, including the owner and the principal of a school in Shahdol district,  Madhya Pradesh, for the wrong depiction of India's map in a school diary. The school is located in Budhar town, some 22 kilometres from district headquarters Shahdol, and has about 1,000 students. According to the reports, the map that was published in the school diary had excluded parts of Jammu and Kashmir from India. The three have been booked for sedition. As per the reports, Mohammed Sharif, the owner of the Green Bells Public School, its principal Govindchandra Das, and AK Agrawal, who runs the press that printed the school diary, have all been sent to jail.

A Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) activist, had filed a complaint against them that urged the police to act on it.

Sharif accepts to the police that it was their mistake to have allowed the publication of a distorted map of India.