New Delhi: On the recommendation of the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR), the Patna Police have book two voluntary city groups under the charge of sedition for imparting “provocative and anti-national” lessons on the Citizenship (Amendment) Act and National Register of Citizens to street children at a Danapur residential school.The NCPCR had carried out inspections at the Danapur residential school on February 15 and 25. The school provides space to two voluntary groups for conducting classes which are attended by around 60 girls in the six to 18 years age group.Following its inspection of the school, the child rights body said on going through the homework copies of some of the students, it found that they had wrongly “interpreted CAA/NRC”. One of the students had while referring to the legislation enacted in December 2019, written: “I am against NRC. If I have no home, where can I keep documents.”On going through the writings of the students, NCPCR chairperson Priyank Kanungo had written to the Patna police that on inspecting “all the relevant papers” he had come to the conclusion that “such lessons would (turn) students against (the) laws of the land”.The Commission in its letter to Patna SSP Garima Malik on March 2 wrote that “… the team came across one ‘capacity building register’, where it was found written that ‘NRC, CAA, fund raising training’ was conducted on 20 December 2019… by KDDC… (and Umbrella Foundation)…”.It further pointed out that lesson to students in Hindi on December 26, 2019, said: “…This (CAA/NRC) will affect mostly those living in slums as these are damaged because of floods or other reasons every year… If the Bill (CAA) being brought by the government gets passed, we all should oppose it.”Watch: ‘Govt Uses Sedition Law to Create Fear, It Should Be Abolished’: Retired SC JudgeSubsequently, the Commission also wrote to the Director General of Bihar police, S.K. Singhal, seeking registration of a case against those holding the classes. Thereafter, the police registered a case against the Umbrella Foundation and KDDC at the Danapur Police Station last week. It invoked charges under Section 124A (sedition) and Section 153A (promoting enmity between different groups) of the Indian Penal Code, and under the Juvenile Justice Act.However, as reported by the Indian Express, an officer of Danapur Police Station said that while the matter was being investigated, “no one, however, has been arrested.”The newspaper also quoted Santosh Mahto, who is associated with the classes held at the Danapur school, as saying that he had little information regarding the two organisations – Umbrella Foundation and KDDC – which were running classes at the school. “We do not decide which organisations provide training to the street girls,” he said.As per the development model of such school in Bihar, the state government provides the infrastructure – including the building – to the child care institutes while the functioning of the schools is funded by the civil society.The Bihar police are now trying to get in touch with both the groups to learn about their classes.The police have invoked the sedition charge against Sarma, even though the Supreme Court has repeatedly ruled that sedition is constituted by written or spoken words which “have the effect of bringing contempt or dissatisfaction or the idea of subverting government by violent means”. In Kedar Nath Singh v State of Bihar, the apex court said that if comments, however strongly worded, do not have the tendency to incite violence, they cannot be treated as sedition.