Recently, a Class 5 student was allegedly gang-raped by a peon working in an MCD-run school and his three accomplices in Delhi. The incident exposed major security lapses in the schools. This deep-dive investigative report reveals the ground situation in MCD schools in the national capital. Schools without security guards or attendants; whiskey bottles and used injection syringes strewn all around in school premises; teenagers caught on tape having marijuana; cows and buffaloes grazing in the school lawns; cigarettes, beedis and used matches thrown all around in classrooms - MCD schools in Delhi are a disaster waiting to happen.