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Lady teacher allegedly ’molests’ girl in B’lore school


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Bengaluru, Nov 23, 2014: Parents of a five-year-old girl lodged a complaint with RT Nagar police on November 21, Friday alleging that a woman teacher sexually assaulted a girl  student at Navodaya Vidyaniketan School, located on Dinnur Main Road.

RT Nagar policePolice said the teacher, aged around 30 years, had been detained and booked under Pocso Act. The incident came to light after the girl returned home with a bleeding nose. When asked by her mother, the girl replied that she was beaten by her teacher on her nose and private parts. The parents immediately took her to a hospital for treatment and later lodged a complaint alleging that their daughter was sexually abused by a “madam.” “The father of the victim has named the suspect as ‘madam’ in his complaint. He has not mentioned the name of the suspect. The school building is equipped with CCTV cameras and we will examine the footage,” a senior police officer said.

He added that the girl had been subjected to medical examination and no conclusions could be arrived at before receiving the report. He said the victim was in a state of shock and she was yet to be questioned. Another senior officer, who spoke to media on condition of anonymity denied the reports that the teacher had been detained.

As the news broke out, hundreds of parents gathered near the school and staged a protest demanding the arrest of the suspect. Police barricaded the area and brought the situation under control.

Complaint :The officials of the Education department who visited the school on November 22, said it was not an incident of sexual abuse, but a general complaint about harassment of the student. The offcials stated that they visited the school after the compliant. It is a general complaint. We do not have a copy of FIR yet. When we visited the school, police had taken the teacher to inquire, said Block Education Officer (BEO) South Zone III, VRamesha.

The principal of the school said that they too had lodged a complaint against the parents while the management members claimed that the complaint had been submitted to the Education department. However, the BEO said they had not received any complaint from the school.

The BEO said that their phone calls to the parents were not answered. He added that the school was closed on November 22, Saturday as students had gone on an excursion. A management member alleged that the telephone number mentioned in the police complaint was different from the one mentioned in the school records. The school with classes 1 to 10 has 588 students.

Further, parents of a student studying in a play home at Hulimavu lodged a complaint against the school on  November 22, Saturday alleging misbehaviour on part of the management. It is said that their daughter used to come home everyday with mosquito bites and they had urged the play home to take precautionary measures. They alleged that the management invited the parents for a meeting and abused them verbally. A complaint has been registered. These sort of incidents are fast becoming an epidemic and this unhealthy situation needs to be addressed  with a deeper regulation and understanding.


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