Schoolteachers, principal in Alwar booked in gang rape cases
The Hindu
Minor girls allege female teachers also colluded in the rape
The entire staff of a Government school in Rajasthan’s Alwar district, comprising 14 teachers and the principal, were on Wednesday booked in three gang rape cases on the complaints lodged by four students. The minor girls alleged that the teachers had been raping them with the help of their female colleagues.
The police have registered FIRs under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act and launched investigation. One of the FIRs was based on the complaint of two sisters studying in the school, while the others were registered on the complaint of two other students.
While no arrests were made till Wednesday evening, the investigating team at Mandhan police station in Behror sub-division probed into the aspect of “false complaints” having been made against the teachers at the instance of one of their former colleagues, who was arrested on charges of molestation last year.
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