Girls parents approached police after she was beaten up by a woman school teacher
Bengaluru: A woman school teacher was booked under POCSO on Saturday for allegedly “sexually assaulting” a six-year-old girl at Navodaya Vidyaniketan School in JC Nagar on Friday. But Department of Public Instruction officials said that it was not a sexual assault, but a case of corporal punishment.The girl’s parents approached the RT Nagar police station on Friday evening and filed a sexual assault case after the child started bleeding from the nose while playing outside her house.
When asked, the first standard girl told her parents that she was beaten up by a woman school teacher, who also hurt her private parts. The police immediately registered an FIR and sent the girl for medical examination at B.R. Amebdkar Medical College and Hospital.Police sources said that the doctors found injury marks on the girl’s private parts, but did not confirm sexual assault.
When the news spread, hundreds of parents gathered near the school on Jindal Main Road on Saturday morning and protested. Around 50 of them sat on the road and demanded action against the accused teacher, principal and the management.
Many parents who spoke to the media said that it was the first such incident reported from the school. “The school is known for discipline and good results as well as extra-curricular activities. It is a budget school and has a good reputation. But this incident has sent shock waves among the parents,” they said.
( Source : dc correspondent )
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