Sexual abuse case: Cops fail to arrest accused teacher
POLICE HAVE RECORDED THE TWO VICTIMS’ STATEMENTS BEFORE A JUDICIAL MAGISTRATE
KARNAL:MORE than 24 hours after a 35-year-old Sanskrit teacher of a government school in Indri was booked for allegedly sodomising two Class 9 students during a tour to Karnal, police have failed to arrest the accused.
The police have recorded the victims’ statements before a judicial magistrate and the boys revealed the incident. “We have recorded their statements. The investigation is going on and the accused will be arrested,” Indri police station in-charge Rajiv Kumar said.
The accused, identified as Shishan Pal, allegedly assaulted the boys, who were among a group of eight students touring Karnal to participate in a cultural programme on September 27 and 28. Pal was on Thursday booked under the Protection of Children From Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act after the district child welfare committee registered a police complaint. her to school in Madlauda town of Panipat district.
The incident took place on Thursday and the victim revealed the incident to her mother, when she noticed tooth marks on the four-year-old’s cheeks. The family members waited for the rickshaw puller and handed him over to the police when he came to take her to the school on Friday morning.
The victim, a LKG student at a private school, told that the accused took her behind a tree and bit on her cheek and she started crying and he left her at her house, the police said.
Talking to Hindustan Times, Madlauda police station in-charge Narender Singh said based on the complaint of the girl’s family the accused has been booked under Prevention of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act. The child has been sent for medical examination. The police said the accused was hired by school for pick-and-drop facility for the students.
LAPTOP, MOBILE DATA TAMPERED WITH
The police claimed to have recovered Honeypreet’s laptop and mobile phone. While the laptop was recovered during a search operation at the dera, the mobile was handed over to the police by dera chairperson Vipassana on Friday after she reached for questioning here.
However, the data in her mobile phone, a latest iphone version, was found deleted. “Honeypreet has feigned ignorance about this. The matter is being investigated. We will be sending her phone for data recovery to the government-run CFSL laboratory,” said an official. “Her laptop had revenue details about the dera ,” said the official.
CHARGED WITH WAGING WAR AGAINST STATE
The police told the court that she has been charged under Sector 120-B (criminal conspiracy), 121
(waging, or attempting to wage war, or abetting waging of war, against government) and 121-A (conspiracy to commit offences).
The police earlier had not specified the charges in the FIR.
Panchkula police commissioner AS Chawla said they had enough evidence to nail Honeypreet as a main accused in inciting violence in Panchkula on August 25.