‘Non-veg khila ke Musalman banayega’; Class three Muslim boy expelled from Indian school over biryani

A video of a Muslim mother arguing with the principal of an Indian school has gone viral in which she is complaining about expelling her son from the school.

A school in northern India expelled a young student for bringing non-vegetarian biryani for his lunch, sparking an official investigation.

The incident happened in Uttar Pradesh’s Amroha district where a three-member investigation committee has been constituted to look into the matter.

In the footage, the principal can allegedly be heard saying, “Your child says that he wants to convert everyone to Islam by making them eat non-vegetarian food.”

The child believed to be between five and seven years old, brought meat biryani in his tiffin for lunch.

Principal Avnish Kumar Sharma denied the allegations, stating that the child had damaged a temple on school grounds and offered biryani to classmates, which upset other parents. “I called a parent-teacher meeting, but his mother accused me instead,” the principal told The Indian Express.

On allegations of the child’s intentions to “demolish temples” in the future, the distressed mother can be heard confronting the principal by saying he is responsible for verbally abusing her son and locking him in a room as punishment. She further revealed that her son had been facing religious discrimination in the school for the past three months, which she called the “Hindu-Muslim” thing.

The controversy has raised concerns over religious intolerance and discriminatory practices prevalent in India as incidents of cow vigilantism and lynching of Muslims have also been reported in the recent past.