Nearly 1000 Christian Missionary schools across West Bengal were today closed to protest against the ransacking of the Christ Church Girls' High School last week and observed a "black day".
A police picket was posted in front of the Dum Dum school where an 11-year-old student died on September 11 allegedly in shock after being confined inside a toilet of the school allegedly by her seniors.
"Nearly 1000 Christian schools are today closed across the state. While no protest is ever a happy occasion, we are glad and satisfied to inform you that today's expression of our anguish went off peacefully without any incident," Father Moloy B D'Costa, secretary, West Bengal Association of Christian Schools, said.
D'Costa heading a five-member delegation submitted a memorandum at the Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's office.
Rev Abir Adhikari, honorary secretary, Diocese of Calcutta, said that the students and guardians have cooperated with WBACS in organising the shutdown.
Archbishop Thomas D'Souza, head of the Roman Catholic Church of the Kolkata Diocese and head of West Bengal Association of Christian Schools, on September 16 had announced the shutdown.
