The 10-year-old schoolgirl whose mother has been arrested under a sedition case in Bidar in Karnataka has been shifted to the school hostel under the management’s care.

The student of Shaheen Primary and High School in Bidar was under the care of her neighbour since her widowed mother was arrested on January 30 over an anti-CAA skit that had a reference to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

With the child welfare committee coming into the picture, the school was asked to be the guardian of the girl who had no one but her mother who was under judicial custody.

Her mother was arrested for allegedly scripting the play. The primary school head teacher was also arrested, held accountable for staging the play in which the child also had a role.

On Tuesday, a district court heard the bail pleas of the mother and the teacher and adjourned the matter to Friday.

“The bail pleas (of the two women) were adjourned as the public prosecutor sought more time to file his objections. We are doing our best to bail out both of them,” school CEO Tauseef Madikeri told The Telegraph.

“The school management will be the child’s guardian until her mother is released on bail. To help her adjust with the hostel, she is staying with a teacher at the hostel,” Madikeri said.

He said the girl was badly affected by her mother’s arrest and had stopped attending classes since February 3. When she eventually attended classes, she kept asking the teachers about her mother.

“The teacher with whom she is staying at the hostel is counselling her to help her overcome her fears and anxiety over her mother,” said Madikeri.

When the child was staying with her neighbour, she suffered panic attacks and used to wake up in the middle of the night and ask for her mother, he said.

The mother worked as a domestic help in four houses to eke out a living. She had arrived in Bidar around three months ago to earn a livelihood and provide proper education to her only child.

Earlier, she lived in her family home in a village some 30km from Bidar town.

After slapping the case against the two women and the school, the police were accused of relentlessly questioning the pupils who were either part of the play or were in the audience. The questioning went on for five days but stopped after media reports .