In Jalandhar CT Public School Maqsudan, the case of asking a Sikh student to remove his 'Kara' has come to the fore. Sikh Talmel Committee members reached the school and sought an apology from the teacher and the principal. The Sikh Talmel Committee said that Kada is one of the 5 Kakars of Sikhs. They said that the sentiments of the Sikhs have been hurt by the incident of getting the Kara of Sikh youth torn off. A case should be registered against the teacher who has done this.
In the meantime, the CT group has released a statement stating the immediate termination of the teacher's employment.
This is the second incident of getting the Kara removed from Sikh youth hands in the educational institution of CT Group. Earlier, in the Shahpur campus of City Group, the same incident happened.
In its statement, CT Group stated that the teacher's contract got terminated, but on the one hand while stated that the student had merely been advised to wear a light Kara rather than a heavy one. A heavy blow can also harm someone.
Harpal Singh Chadha, the head of the Sikh Talmel Committee, said that as soon as he got the information about the incident, he immediately went to the CT Public School in Maqsudan. There the teacher was asked the reason for doing so. When pressurized, the teacher admitted that she had asked the student to take off Kara after initially denying that such an incident had occurred.
Manbir Singh, the managing director (MD) of CT Group, said that the heavy Karas were also taken off of students' hands after one of them severely harmed another student in a fight at his school. Therefore, the teachers of the institute had instructed them to take off the kara, but they can wear a symbolic simple kara.