Five members of a school management near Bantwal in Dakshina Kannada district have been booked.
The economic muscle in the Mangalore region is generally sympathetic to the BJP, says Aditi Phadnis.
Police are probing various angles, including the assailants coming from neighbouring Kerala.
'Teaching lessons is the objective behind every school.' 'For the moment, a state seems intent to teach a lesson -- that students of Classes 4, 5 and 6 can wage war against the mighty Indian nation,' says Krishna Prasad.
'Hindu voters in coastal Karnataka lean more towards Hindutva than Hinduism which explains why the Siddaramaiah government's perception as anti-Hindu worked wonders for the BJP in coastal Karnataka.'