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As a result, only 81 of the 171 students came to school on Saturday and of these only 20 had their “mid-day” meals.Headmaster of the school. Singh contacted the police after he failed to get in touch with the cleric.Later, the cleric himself contacted the village Pradhan and apologised for the announcement. Singh said, “We have not given any police complaint as we don’t want to aggravate this matter”. AGRA: An Aligarh-based Muslim cleric, who had announced on Friday that Muslim students should not “eat” anything, given in the government schools had to eat his own words following widespread criticism.The cleric, Maulana Humaid, made the announcement during the Friday prayers from the mosque after some students of a government school fell ill after consuming “deworming” tablets given to them. The incident had happened at Nagla Narayan Singh primary school.Though no official complaint was lodged, the cleric faced lot of criticism from parents and other members of the community, forcing him to apologize..