A teacher of a government high school in a village in Kota has been arrested for molesting a class 12 student. A police officer told The News that on Friday, the accused was produced before the POCSO court which ordered that he be sent to judicial custody.
The incident took place at the government school in Julmi village under the jurisdiction of Sugi police station in the district. The school was selected under the special category of ‘Pradhan Mantri Shree School’. State Education Minister Madan Dilawar took notice of the incident and ordered the suspension of the teacher. He also ordered the suspension of the school principal for not taking timely action in the matter.
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When the school did not take action against the teacher, the crowd rioted
Suket police station SHO Raghuveer Singh said on Friday that the accused, Ved Prakash Bairwa (32), was arrested on Thursday following a complaint filed by a 17-year-old student against the lecturer.
The SHO said the minor claimed that the accused tried to force her into physical relations and sometimes even held her hand forcibly. Subsequently, the student complained about the matter to her class teacher and the principal. However, when the school did not resolve the girl’s problem, she told her parents.
Thereafter, on Thursday, he reached the school to discuss the matter, but the principal and the accused teacher were allegedly angry with him and threw him out of the school. Meanwhile, as soon as the news got out, hundreds of angry villagers came to the school to protest and the school staff locked themselves in the room seeing the crowd.
During this time, the angry villagers created a riot inside the school premises for about two and a half hours, while the student was allegedly waiting outside the school wearing a shoe garland. After receiving information about the riot, the local police rushed to the school and after seeing the angry crowd, they called in more police from two other police stations. Subsequently, the accused lecturer was taken to the police station.
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Cases registered under these sections
SHO Singh said Bairwa was booked on Friday under Section 74 (assault or criminal force to a woman with intent to outrage her modesty) and Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) of the Indian Justice Code (BNS). He was arrested under Sections 11 and 12.
On Friday, the police produced the accused before the POCSO court, which ordered that he be sent to judicial custody. Kota district education officer (DEO) Krishna Kumar Sharma said the director of secondary education, Bikaner, had issued a separate order on Friday suspending the accused teacher Bhairwa and principal Dewan Singh Rawat with immediate effect.
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