The chairman of the Peace International School in Kochi, which was closed by the state government on charges of teaching communal hatred, was taken into custody on Sunday. A police team from Kochi is on the way to Hyderabad to arrest M.M. Akbar, for whom the state had issued a lookout notice.
Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan had ordered shuttering the school recently after textbooks that were spreading communal hatred were detected. The district collector and the department of education had recommended the action.
The police filed a case in October 2016 after the district education officer filed a complaint.
A probe by the education department found that the school wasn't teaching from texts recommended by the NCERT, CBSE or SCERT.