Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) convenor Abhijeet Dipke was booked along with others in Maharashtra’s Latur for allegedly entering a government school without permission. A First Information Report (FIR) was registered against Dipke, party worker Ajinkya Shinde and other CJP workers at Ausa police station on a complaint filed by Sayyed Shamshadbano Khairatali (53), a teacher at a Zilla Parishad Urdu school.

According to the complaint, the alleged incident took place at the ZP Urdu school at Jawali near Ausa, over 500 km from Mumbai.

Dipke has been visiting schools in central Maharashtra’s Latur district and highlighting their problems as part of the CJP’s ongoing ‘School Thik Karo’ (improve government schools) campaign.

The FIR alleged that the CJP founder and his associates entered the school without permission, sat among students and asked them various questions, thereby obstructing educational and government work. The complaint added that the CJP leader also filmed the proceedings and shared it on social media.

Dipke later defamed the school by claiming that students from another school had been brought and made to sit in the classrooms during his visit. He further threatened to get the teachers suspended, the complaint alleged.

The FIR was registered under sections 132 (Assault or use of criminal force to deter a public servant from discharging their official duty), 329(3) (house trespass), 351(2) (criminal intimidation) and 356(2) (criminal defamation) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.

Investigation is underway in connection to the case.