At the Bemina, Srinagar, office of the Jammu and Kashmir Board of School Education, a file is kept inside a locker. They call it File 104, which is essentially a watchlist of schools flagged by intelligence agencies. If a school finds its way in, government registration is off the table, without any formal response or a public notice. One of the schools in the spotlight in recent days is Islamia High School in Baramulla, one of the 58 self-financed schools linked directly or indirectly to the Falah-e-Aam Trust (FAT) which the government has announced it will take over, as it sees them as “under patronage of the Trust or falling within its ideological orbit”. The FAT is the educational affiliate of the banned Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI), J&K. Following the government order, the administrative control of all 58 schools has been given to principals of nearby government schools, including Islamia High School.…