police also arrested school's founder chairman on charges of suppression of evidence
People protest outside the school gate against the recent rape case. (Photo: DC/File)
Bengaluru: In a fresh twist to the Vibgyor rape case, the city police have arrested two gym teachers, Lalgiri, 21, and Waseem Pasha, 28, who had allegedly raped the first standard student on July 3rd at the school gymnasium after all the other students left the gym.
The police ruled out the involvement of the skating teacher, Mohammad Musafa in the rape case. However, they maintained that a suo moto case has been taken up against Mustafa for his alleged misbehavior with girl students in a school in Whitefield in 2011.
After evidently botching up their investigations into the six-year-old’s rape case, the police on Tuesday told the media that there were differences in facts that were mentioned in the FIR on July 14th and the facts that emerged during investigations.
“Since the survivor was a child, there was no clarity and vividness initially when the investigation started. We had to wait patiently for the child to open up with the counselors about the perpetrators of the crime,” said city police commissioner, M.N. Reddi. “We are ruling out Mustafa’s direct involvement in this six-year-old’s sexual assault,” he added.
Based on the CCTV footage and inputs from the Nimhans’ counselors who were counseling the survivor, the police conducted their investigations and zeroed in on two suspects against whom, circumstantial and supporting evidence were found.
Both of them were picked up for questioning and are said to have confessed to the police that they committed the crime, the police said. The two of them are still in police custody and they will be remanded to judicial custody soon after further investigations.
The police also added that the child had identified the two gym instructors as the ones who had done ‘bad things’ to her that day. Police also said that Rustom Kerawalla, the founder chairman of Vibgyor High, flew down to Bengaluru from Mumbai during the protests and had reportedly pressurised school staff not to cooperate with the police.
The police, who had ample evidence against him for suppression of evidence, arrested him under the instructions of joint police commissioner.
( Source : dc correspondent )
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