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Others shared their ordeal and said that he had been sexually harassing them as well, said the mother of one of the female students who were allegedly sexually assaulted or harassed by headmaster Rajesh Kumar...
We have recorded the statements of 17 students so far who have confirmed the allegations of sexual assault, harassment and bad touch, Singh said.. Rajesh Kumar was arrested on 27 November, and booked under IPC sections 354 (assault or use of criminal force to any woman to outrage her modesty) and 294 (obscene acts and songs), and sections 9f (whoever being on the management or staff of an educational institution or religious institution, commits sexual assault on a child in that institution) and 10 (aggravated sexual assault) of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, 2012...
The mother of the Class 7 student who fought off the headmaster said her daughter had told her about the assault two days before NCPCR-CWC officials arrived at the school...
But before we could, the NCPCR team arrived and recorded the statements of the girls, she added.. Discussing the details her daughter had shared, she said, When the girls visited the headmasters office to get their notebooks checked, he would forcefully kiss them and harass them, she said...
Speaking to ThePrint, Bhardwaj said resistance and discouragement from parents was the reason why over half the female students were absent from school the day the NCPCR team arrived...
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