School textbook depicts Jesus with cigarette and beer

A Delhi-based publisher has landed in a controversy after some textbooks published by it carried a picture of Jesus Christ holding a cigarette in one hand and a beer can in the other.
   
Authorities of a convent school here, where the cursive writing book was supplied among the students of Class I to IV, today filed an FIR against Skyline Publication.
 
The police today seized 30 such books and the authorities of the St Joseph Girls Higher Secondary School asked the students to return the remaining.

The headmistress of the school Sister M Thaddeus Syiemiong said, ''It came to our notice only a few days back. We have asked the students to return the textbooks.''

The cursive writing book meant for Class I is a spelling tutor. For the alphabet 'I', the word 'Idol' is used in the book. Against this word is printed the picture of Jesus Christ with the scandalous representation.
   
The objectionable picture is also printed in other cursive writing books of Class II, III and IV.
    
Church leaders and officials of the education department visited the school this morning and took sample copies of the textbook.