Safe enough? Bengaluru's Vibgyor High, where minor was raped, reopens

Bengaluru: Around hundred parents, along with educational department and senior police officials, visited Vibgyor High on Sunday noon to check upgraded security arrangements made by the management. The school, where a six-year-old girl was raped by a skating instructor, is reopening on Monday.

Ms Devyani Bagchi Choudhry, a member of the temporary parents’ task force, said, “A large number of parents visited the school on Sunday to check the stepped-up security measures. After our memorandum seeking additional security cameras was submitted, the school has installed 76 CCTV cameras. The management has taken our other demands into consideration and is working on them.” The parents had demanded that in stage I, the school should install 112 surveillance cameras.

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Bangalore DCP (south-east), Dr T.D. Pawar said, “Senior police officers visited the school on Sunday to assess the additional security
measures taken by the management, as demanded by the parents. By late Sunday night, all the 112 CCTV cameras will be installed in the school. The work on raising the compound walls of the school is being taken up, too.”

He said, “The school has 208 staff members. We have done background checks on 127 of them, including security guards, drivers, maids, staff in the kitchen department etc. After verifying the background of these 127 staff members, a report has been sent to the office of the city police commissioner.”

The school will start classes for fifth standard to 10th standard students on Monday. The decision to reopen the school was taken at a three-hour meeting on Thursday between parents, the school management, Education Department officials and police.