"Our dear ones and near ones are injured and hurt, and we are trying to find out what happened, " said Darshan Dhaliwal, a congregation leader.

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Ms Dhaliwal added that she feared the move was "indicative of a wider trend of creeping incursions" by religious groups into academies which previously did not have any kind of faith ethos.

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